Jair Bolsonaro’s son sentenced to four years in jail for seeking US interference in father’s Brazil coup trial

Brazil supreme court finds that Eduardo Bolsonaro - who resides in the US - tried to get sanctions put on judges trying ex-president over coup plot

Brazil's supreme court has sentenced Eduardo Bolsonaro to four years and two months in prison after finding him guilty of courting US interference in his father's coup plot trial last year.

The office of Brazil's prosecutor general had charged Eduardo Bolsonaro - who lives in the US - courting interference from the Trump administration to help Jair Bolsonaro's case, by imposing sanctions on the court's justices and tariffs on Brazilian goods.