Brazil's Supreme Court threatened to order the arrest of former president Jair Bolsonaro on Monday. The court ordered Bolsonaro's lawyers to explain, within 24 hours, why he breached restrictions on his use of social media,

A Brazilian Supreme Court judge has threatened former president Jair Bolsonaro with imprisonment, arguing that the sharing of a speech of his by online users was a "violation" of a social media ban, according to a document accessed by AFP on Monday.

A court ruled that Bolsonaro made the speech to news outlets with the intent of it being circulated on social media, violating a ban. Meanwhile, the nation debates if such a ban should include news interviews.