Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro accused the country’s supreme court of persecuting him on Saturday after his appeal against a travel ban was rejected.

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro says he is the victim of political persecution as he accompanied his wife to the airport to board a flight to represent him at U.S.

Bolsonaro's lawyers filed an appeal claiming the politician had fully complied with the precautionary measures imposed on him by the Supreme Court.

Brazil's top court on Thursday refused to return the passport of right-wing former president Jair Bolsonaro, who had hoped to attend next week's inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump.

Former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is facing criminal charges, has been invited to Trump's inauguration even though Brazil's government has confiscated his passport

Former Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the press after his wife Michelle Bolsonaro embarks a flight to the United States to attend the inauguration ceremony of U.S. President-elect Donald

Bolsonaro said his lawyer has already made a request to get his passport back so he could “attend this honorable and important historical event.”

Brazil's Supreme Court rejected former President Jair Bolsonaro's attempt to retrieve his passport to travel to the U.S. for Trump's inauguration. Bolsonaro, barred from office till 2030 and facing charges,

Brazil’s Supreme Court has denied a request by former President Jair Bolsonaro to temporarily restore his passport so he could attend the inauguration in Washington of U.S. President-elect Donald Trum

Ex-President Jair Bolsonaro, banned from leaving Brazil due to allegations he plotted a coup, has appealed to the Supreme Court to attend the Jan. 20 ceremony in Washington.