• Brazil’s Supreme Court suspended a law that would reduce former President Jair Bolsonaro’s prison sentence.
  • Bolsonaro is serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup after losing the 2022 election.
  • The law could potentially free him in 2028.
  • Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the suspension until the full court rules on the law’s constitutionality.
  • The law was passed by Bolsonaro’s allies after President Lula had vetoed it.

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