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Ricardo Brito

Brazilian court convicts son of ex-president Bolsonaro

Brazil's Supreme Court has convicted former lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro, a son of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro living ‌in the US, of courting interference from the Trump administration in his father's trial last year for a coup ‌plot.

A panel of four justices unanimously backed the conviction on Tuesday, issuing a prison sentence of four years and two ‌months to the former lawmaker, who now risks arrest on return to Brazil.

Eduardo Bolsonaro, who has argued in Washington that he and his family are the target of unfair persecution by Brazil's Supreme Court, said he had not been properly notified about the court's legal process.

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