{"id":16695,"date":"2026-04-14T13:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/16695\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T13:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:10:23","slug":"brazilian-ex-intelligence-chief-alexandre-ramagem-arrested-by-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/16695\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian ex-intelligence chief Alexandre Ramagem arrested by ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAO PAULO (AP) \u2014 A Brazilian<\/a> senator said on Monday that the country\u2019s former intelligence agency chief Alexandre Ramagem was arrested by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and is pleading for him to get political asylum in the United States.<\/p>\n

Ramagem, also a former lawmaker, was sentenced in September to 16 years in prison for his role in the coup attempt by supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro<\/a> in 2023. Brazil\u2019s federal police said he fled the South American nation before he would have started serving his sentence. <\/p>\n

Sen. Jorge Seif said in his social media channels that he had informed the U.S. embassy in Brasilia that Ramagem should not remain in custody for he was being persecuted at home. Seif did not give details as to why the former Brazilian intelligence agency chief had been put under custody.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Ramagem appeared as in custody in ICE\u2019s online detainee database, although where he is being held was not specified. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe political persecution against President Bolsonaro, his sons and his allies is now hitting an elected lawmaker in foreign soil,\u201d Seif said. \u201cIn our document (to the U.S. embassy) we showed all the reasons that justify and defend the concession of political asylum to Ramagem and his family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ramagem was stripped of his seat in Brazil\u2019s congress in December<\/a> as a consequence of his conviction in the coup case one month earlier. <\/p>\n

Earlier on Monday, Brazil\u2019s federal police said in a statement that a \u201cfugitive of the country\u2019s justice was arrested\u201d in Orlando, but did not mention Ramagem by name. <\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s federal police also said the unnamed fugitive was recently sentenced by the country\u2019s top court for the same three counts<\/a> as Ramagem\u2019s conviction.<\/p>\n

ICE and Ramagem\u2019s lawyer did not respond a request for comment from The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

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Follow the AP\u2019s coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/latin-america<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAO PAULO (AP) \u2014 A Brazilian senator said on Monday that the country\u2019s former intelligence agency chief Alexandre…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10434,7377,2013,7378,219,3727,818,817,50,8,1660,3194,3713,10435,218,166,9,67,1577,1468,7,106],"class_list":{"0":"post-16695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-alexandre-ramagem","9":"tag-brasilia","10":"tag-brazil","11":"tag-brazil-government","12":"tag-central-america","13":"tag-criminal-punishment","14":"tag-fl-state-wire","15":"tag-florida","16":"tag-general-news","17":"tag-headlines","18":"tag-international-incidents","19":"tag-international-news","20":"tag-jair-bolsonaro","21":"tag-jorge-seif","22":"tag-latin-america","23":"tag-law-enforcement","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-politics","26":"tag-prisons","27":"tag-south-america","28":"tag-top-stories","29":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116403229537813926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}