<h1>Justice-led panel convicts former president and allies for 2023 coup attempt, sentences total 27 years 3 months</h1> A Supreme Court justice led a five-member panel that found a former president had orchestrated a 2023 coup attempt and sentenced him to 27 years and three months in prison, alongside convictions of several allies and military figures. The ruling, unprecedented in Brazilian history, followed extensive investigations into disinformation, electoral integrity and online mobilization, and relied on measures including arrests, account blocks and house arrest. The justice, previously a state public security chief and electoral court official, drove the prosecutions despite foreign sanctions and trade measures and controversy over alleged judicial overreach and restrictions on expression, while supporters hail the decisions as defense of the rule of law.