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A Brazilian judge ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to be placed under house arrest on Monday for violating preventive measures. According to Justice Alexandre de Moraes, Bolsonaro breached a ban on using social media that was imposed on him last month, when he was also ordered to wear an electronic ankle monitor. Moraes stated that the former president used friends' social media accounts to share messages of encouragement and incitement to attack the Supreme Federal Court, as well as overt support for foreign intervention in the country’s judiciary.

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00:01Brazil's Supreme Court Minister Alexandre de Moraes has just ordered that far-right
00:06former President Jair Bolsonaro be placed under house arrest in Brasilia for repeatedly
00:12violating the terms and conditions of the precautionary measures that were set in place
00:17on July 19th when he was judged by the court to be a flight risk and forced to wear an
00:24electronic ankle monitor and stay off of social media.
00:28Now, for the past couple of weeks, Bolsonaro has repeatedly ignored orders to stay off
00:33of social media.
00:34He hasn't posted on his own account, but he's repeatedly posted incendiary language inciting
00:40violence against Brazil's Supreme Court and its ministers on the social media accounts
00:45of his three sons and friends and of political allies.
00:50Now, the court has already announced that the final judgment for the coup plotting case,
00:55which has resulted in the indictments of former President Bolsonaro and 32 of his cronies,
01:01will take place in September.
01:02This means for the next couple of weeks, Bolsonaro is confined to his house, he can only receive
01:07visits from lawyers and family members, and the federal police swept his house beforehand,
01:12removed all of the cellular devices.
01:14Because he's definitely not going to be able to post on social media anymore until the final
01:20day of sentencing, whereas he's expected to face a prison sentence of up to 40 years for
01:26his involvement in a plot to enact a military coup to prevent Lula da Silva from taking office
01:33office as president in January 2023.
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