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Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Brazil court rejects Jair Bolsonaro’s bid to attend Trump’s inauguration

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Jair Bolsonaro in Camboriu, Brazil, on 7 July 2024. Photograph: Pedro H Tesch/Getty Images

Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro – who is under investigation for allegedly plotting a coup – has seen his hopes of attending Donald Trump’s inauguration dashed after a judge ruled his confiscated passport would not be returned in case the disgraced politician used it to flee abroad.

Bolsonaro’s travel document was seized by federal police last February as investigators deepened their inquiries into what they call a sprawling conspiracy to dismantle Brazil’s 40-year-old democracy.

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