What you need to know about Bolsonaro’s coup prison sentence


Former president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison, after he was found guilty of plotting a military coup by a panel of five Supreme Court justices.

The BBC’s South America correspondent Ione Wells explains everything you need to know about the case.

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