Sao Paulo, Sept. 17 -- Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro was ordered on Tuesday to pay 1 million reals (about 188,000 U.S. dollars) in damages for racist remarks he made while in office and issue a public apology.
The Federal Regional Court in the southern city of Porto Alegre made the ruling after Brazil's Supreme Federal Court on Thursday sentenced the ex-president to 27 years and three months in prison for attempting a coup in 2022.
The latest ruling held Bolsonaro accountable for comments he made about the curly hair of a young man of African descent during a broadcast in 2021, which caused collective moral damage by eroding the values of society as a whole.
In that broadcast, Bolsonaro compared a supporter's afro hairstyle to...