On his first full day in jail, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told a judge on Sunday he had violated his ankle monitoring the day before at his house arrest because of a nervous breakdown and hallucinations caused by a change in his medication.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday told a judge that medicine-induced paranoia and hallucination caused him to tamper with an electronic ankle monitor, court records showed, a day after police took him into custody out of fear he might flee.

Thousands of revelers have gathered on the Copacabana boardwalk for Rio de Janeiro’s annual Pride parade. Many celebrated the preemptive jailing of former President Jair Bolsonaro, known for

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro received a 27-year sentence for a coup attempt. Relatives of the 700,000 COVID-19 dead say his conviction, though separate to the pandemic, offers vindication.

Jair Bolsonaro’s efforts to avoid jail went awry Saturday, when police detained the former Brazilian president after he took a soldering iron to a court-mandated ankle monitor and sparked fears that he planned to flee.