Brazil’s federal police said messages found on the telephone of former President Jair Bolsonaro showed he once wanted to flee to Argentina and request political asylum, according to documents seen Wednesday by The Associated Press.

A Brazil Supreme Court justice ordered the house arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro, on trial for allegedly masterminding a coup plot and a Trump ally.

Brazil's ex-president Jair Bolsonaro left his home where he is under house arrest to undergo medical exams on Saturday, weeks before the Supreme Court rules whether he is guilty of plotting a coup.Brazil's Supreme Court will begin deciding on September 2 on the coup attempt charges against Bolsonaro,

Former President Jair Bolsonaro is on trial before the Supreme Court on charges he conspired with allies to violently overturn his 2022 electoral loss to leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

The undated draft asylum request, discovered on a device seized during investigations, was addressed to Argentina’s President Javier Milei and claimed Bolsonaro had been the victim of political persecution and feared for his life, according to a report filed by federal police investigators to Brazil ’s supreme court.

SAO PAULO -- Lawyers for Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro denied coup charges against him during their final defense in a Supreme Court trial over his alleged attempt to stay in power after losing the 2022 election to current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Brazil's Supreme Court has announced that it will deliver a verdict and sentence in the coup trial against former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro early next month.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Former President Jair Bolsonaro temporarily left house arrest Saturday to undergo medical exams in Brasilia, after a judge authorized him to spend six to eight hours at a hospital.