BRAZIL’S former President Jair Bolsonaro has been ordered to wear an ankle monitor, authorities said today, in a move he described as “a supreme humiliation.”

The development came as federal police conducted searches at his home and his party’s headquarters in Brasilia, in compliance with a Supreme Court order.

The order prohibits Mr Bolsonaro to leave the house at night, communicate with foreign ambassadors and diplomats or approach embassies.

The former president is also barred from using social media or contacting other individuals under investigation by the Supreme Court, including his son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, a Brazilian politician who currently lives in the United States and is known for his close ties to US President Donald Trump.

Mr Bolsonaro is currently on trial at the Supreme Court accused of leading an alleged attempt to stage a coup to overturn the 2022 election in which he was defeated by left-wing president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

“It is a supreme humiliation,” Mr Bolsonaro told journalists in Brasilia after putting on the ankle monitoring. “I never thought about leaving Brazil, I never thought about going to an embassy, but the precautionary measures are because of that.”

On Thursday, Mr Trump wrote to Mr Bolsonaro describing his ally’s treatment by the Brazilian legal system as terrible and unjust.

“This trial should end immediately,” the US president said, saying that he “strongly voiced” his disapproval through his tariff policy.

The Supreme Court’s restrictions on Mr Bolsonaro are part of a second investigation against Eduardo for allegedly working with US authorities to impose sanctions against Brazilian officials.