BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will meet a judge on Sunday to discuss the legality of his imprisonment during his first full day of preemptive jailing at federal police headquarters in the capital, Brasilia.

Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered Bolsonaro’s jailing on Saturday as he was considered a flight risk. De Moraes received information that the far-right leader’s ankle monitor was violated at 12:08 a.m. on Saturday.

Bolsonaro was jailed just days before starting to serve his 27-year-plus prison sentence. A panel of Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled in September that Bolsonaro tried to stage a coup and keep the presidency after his defeat by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2022.

On Monday, the same panel will vote on the preemptive arrest ord

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