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Brazil’s Bolsonaro taken to hospital after feeling unwell

Brazil’s Bolsonaro taken to hospital after feeling unwell

Convicted ex-leader rushed to a hospital in Brasilia after falling ill at his residence, his son says. Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who was sentenced to prison last week for plotting a coup, has been rushed to hospital after falling ill while under house arrest, his son said. The emergency visit on Tuesday is the 70-year-old former army captain’s second trip to the hospital since his conviction. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list Bolsonaro has had recurring intestinal issues since he was stabbed while campaigning in 2018, including at least six related surgeries, the last being a 12-hour-long procedure in April. He won the election that year, and governed from 2019 to 2023. “Bolsonaro felt unwell a short while ago, with a severe bout of hiccups, vomiting, and low blood pressure,” his son, Flavio, wrote on X. “He was taken to DF Star [Hospital] accompanied by correctional police officers who guard his home in Brasília, as it was an emergency,” he wrote. Bolsonaro visited the same hospital on Sunday, and had eight skin lesions removed and sent for biopsies. A panel of Supreme Court justices on Thursday found the former leader guilty of plotting a coup after he lost the 2022 election to current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. They sentenced him to 27 years and three months in prison. The sentence, however, does not immediately send him to jail. The court panel has up to 60 days to publish the ruling after the decision, and once it does, Bolsonaro’s lawyers have five days to file motions for clarification. Bolsonaro has denied wrongdoing and said he is the victim of political persecution. United States President Donald Trump has also called the trial a “witch-hunt”, and imposed tariffs of 50 percent on Brazilian goods, citing the case against Bolsonaro, among other issues. Advertisement The former Brazilian leader has been under house arrest since August for allegedly courting pressure on the courts from Trump. He had already been wearing an ankle monitor. Separately on Tuesday, a federal court ordered Bolsonaro to pay 1 million reais ($188,865) in damages for collective moral harm stemming from racist comments he made while in office. The inquiry originated from Bolsonaro’s statements to a Black supporter who approached him in May 2021 and asked to take a picture. The former president joked, saying he was seeing a cockroach in the man’s hair. He also compared the man’s hairstyle with a “cockroach breeding ground”, implying the hair was unclean. There was no immediate comment from his legal team after the latest court order. His defence had previously told media outlets that the former leader’s remarks were intended as jokes rather than racist statements, denying any intent to cause offence. Public opinion in Brazil, meanwhile, is split on Bolsonaro’s prison sentence on coup charges, and the far-right politician’s allies have laid out several plans to overturn or reduce the jail term. In the Congress, they have rallied behind an amnesty bill, building on the campaign to free hundreds of his supporters who stormed and vandalised government buildings in January 2023. Sao Paulo Governor Tarcisio de Freitas, a leading Bolsonaro ally, has also promised repeatedly to pardon the former leader if he were to become president in next year’s election. A court has barred Bolsonaro from running for office until 2030, though the former president insisted earlier this year that he would compete in the 2026 presidential election. For his part, Lula, the incumbent president, has hailed the sentencing of Bolsonaro as a “historic decision” that followed months of investigations that uncovered plans to assassinate him, the vice president and a Supreme Court justice. Bolsonaro’s conviction, he also said, “safeguards” Brazil’s institutions and the democratic rule of law. Adblock test (Why?)

Charlie Kirk shooting: Tyler Robinson’s messages and charges against him

Charlie Kirk shooting: Tyler Robinson’s messages and charges against him

Tyler Robinson, the suspect in the killing of conservative US activist Charlie Kirk appeared virtually on Tuesday for his first court hearing since his arrest Earlier, Utah prosecutors said they would seek the death penalty for Robinson, as they cited evidence against him, including alleged text messages in which he appeared to confess to carrying out the assassination on September 10 during an even that Kirk was hosting at Utah Valley University (UVU). “I had enough of his hatred,” Robinson, 22, told his flatmate and romantic partner when asked why he had committed the murder, according to transcripts filed by prosecutors with the court. “Some hate can’t be negotiated out,” he added. Here is what we know: What happened on Tuesday? Prosecutors laid out extensive evidence against Robinson, much of it taken from his own communications with friends and family. He also made his first court appearance on Tuesday in Provo, Utah, via a video feed from the county jail where he is being held. Robinson showed up unshaven and wearing what appeared to be a green suicide-prevention smock. He showed no expression, but listened closely as the judge read the charges and warned he could face the death penalty. Robinson spoke only once, to state his name. In court filings, prosecutors began to lay out the case against Robinson, who was at large for more than 30 hours before turning himself in. The document also revealed text messages from Robinson to his flatmate, whom Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray described as “a biological male who was involved in a romantic relationship with Robinson”. Utah Governor Spencer Cox earlier described the flatmate as a person “transitioning from male to female”. This screengrab from the Utah court livestream shows Tyler Robinson attending a court appearance remotely from his jail cell in Provo, Utah [AFP] What was Tyler Robinson charged with? Gray said Robinson was charged with seven offences, including aggravated murder and felony discharge of a firearm. Advertisement Gray said he would seek the death penalty, citing the threat to others at the UVU event where Kirk was shot, especially children, in addition to Kirk’s killing. The 10-page charging document filed by Utah officials contains details on the reasoning behind the charges against Robinson. Here are the charges against Robinson: Count 1: Aggravated murder, which pertains to Robinson’s shooting and killing of Charlie Kirk in a manner that exposed others, in addition to Kirk, to a great risk of death. Count 2: Felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury, a first-degree felony. Count 3: Obstructing justice, a second-degree felony, for moving and concealing the rifle used in the shooting. Count 4: Obstructing justice, which pertains to Robinson’s removal and hiding of the clothing he wore. Count 5: Witness tampering, which pertains to Robinson’s statement to his flatmate telling him to delete his incriminating text. Count 6: Witness tampering, a third-degree felony, for directing his flatmate to stay silent if police questioned him. Count 7: Violent offence committed in the presence of a child, which pertains to Robinson’s shooting of Kirk in the presence of children under the age of 14, who were visible at the event. Why did Robinson’s mother suspect her son was the perpetrator? The document added to previous details that authorities had made public about Robinson soon after his arrest, detailing how his family and flatmate had cooperated with investigators and played a key role in convincing the suspect to turn himself in. Prosecutors said his mother told investigators that the day after the shooting, she saw a photo of the suspect on the news and thought it looked like her son. “Robinson’s mother called her son and asked him where he was. He said he was at home sick… [She] expressed concern to her husband that the suspected shooter looked like him. Robinson’s father agreed,” the document said. “His father also believed that the rifle that police suspected the shooter used matched a rifle that was given to his son as a gift.” Robinson eventually spoke to his father on the phone and implied that he would kill himself, according to prosecutors. With the help of a family friend who is a retired deputy sheriff, his parents persuaded him to surrender to authorities. Robinson’s mother said that over the last year or so, her son had become more political and leaned more to the left, “becoming more pro-gay and trans-rights oriented”. Robinson “began to date his roommate, a biological male who was transitioning genders”, his mother added. Utah County Attorney Jeffrey Gray speaks during a news conference about the charges [Jim Urquhart/Reuters] What else did the text messages reveal? On the day of the shooting, Robinson texted his flatmate and partner, the document said, telling them to “drop what you’re doing, look under my keyboard”. Advertisement When the flatmate looked under Robinson’s keyboard, they found a note. The note read: “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it.” After reading the note, the flatmate texted Robinson back: “What????????????? You’re joking, right????” Robison: “I am still ok my love, but am stuck in orem for a little while longer yet. Shouldn’t be long until I can come home, but I gotta grab my rifle still. To be honest I had hoped to keep this secret till I died of old age. I am sorry to involve you.” Flatmate: “you weren’t the one who did it right????” Robinson: “I am, I’m sorry” Flatmate: “I thought they caught the person?” Robinson: “no, they grabbed some crazy old dude, then interrogated someone in similar clothing. I had planned to grab my rifle from my drop point shortly after, but most of that side of town got locked down.” A charging document in the State of Utah v Tyler Robinson [Provo District Court/Handout via Reuters] Robinson also told his flatmate that the rifle he allegedly used belonged to his grandfather. He sent several messages about how he might retrieve it while police

Top aid groups call on world leaders to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza

Top aid groups call on world leaders to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza

MSF, Islamic Relief and Save the Children are among the 22 aid groups issuing a joint call for world leaders to ‘urgently intervene’ to stop Israel’s genocide. The heads of more than 20 aid agencies working in Gaza have called on world leaders to “urgently intervene” in the war, following the first-ever determination by a United Nations commission that Israel is perpetrating genocide in the devastated territory. With an estimated 65,000 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks so far in Gaza, including more than 20,000 children, the agencies warned early on Wednesday that almost 1 million more people are now “on the precipice of an even deadlier period in Gaza’s story if action is not taken”. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list “The inhumanity of the situation in Gaza is unconscionable,” the groups said in a joint statement, warning that Israel’s latest efforts to forcibly displace Gaza City’s population through a ground occupation are aimed at making the enclave’s largest urban area “deliberately… uninhabitable”. “As humanitarian leaders, we have borne direct witness to the horrifying deaths and suffering of the people of Gaza. Our warnings have gone unheeded and thousands more lives are still at stake,” the agencies said. “More than half a million people are starving. Famine has been declared and is spreading. The cumulative impact of hunger and physical deprivation means people are dying every day,” they said. Despite the well-documented horrors that have unfolded for almost two years under Israel’s siege of the Palestinian territory and enforced starvation of the enclave’s civilian population as they try to survive under military fire, “world leaders fail to act”. “States must use every available political, economic, and legal tool at their disposal to intervene. Rhetoric and half measures are not enough. This moment demands decisive action,” the aid groups said. Advertisement “History will undoubtedly judge this moment as a test of humanity,” they said, adding that UN members must take action, or their “complicity” will set a “dangerous precedent for the future”. Christopher Lockyear, a signatory to the joint statement and the secretary-general of Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, said on Monday that Israel’s military onslaught in Gaza amounts to “the systematic destruction of a people”. MSF is clear, Lockyear said: “Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and doing so with absolute impunity.” “The Israeli military has attacked everything and everyone in Gaza,” he added. Signatories to the statement also include Islamic Relief Worldwide, ActionAid International, CARE International, Handicap International, Save the Children International, the Norwegian Refugee Council and Médecins du Monde. On Tuesday, Navi Pillay, the chairwoman of the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, said the world body had determined that Israel was carrying out genocide in Gaza. Among those most responsible, based on their own statements, for the genocide were Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant and President Isaac Herzog, Pillay said. The UN Commission, in its report, “concludes that the Israeli authorities and Israeli security forces have the genocidal intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip”. Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs took to social media to call the report’s findings “fake” and accused the authors of “serving as Hamas proxies”. Adblock test (Why?)