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Brazil: defeated Flávio Bolsonaro ordered to surrender passports

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Far-right senator banned from leaving country as supreme court judge’s ruling makes reference to money-laundering case The far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro was banned from leaving Brazil and ordered to surrender his passports just hours after his dramatic loss in the presidential election to the leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The ruling was issued by supreme court justice Alexandre de Moraes, the same justice who oversaw the trial of the senator’s father, the former president Jair Bolsonaro, for attempting a coup.

Read the original report at The Guardian.

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