Brazil's top court bars Senator Bolsonaro to visit father

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes barred presidential hopeful Senator Flavio Bolsonaro from visiting his father, former president Jair Bolsonaro, for 90 days, a court decision showed on Monday.



Moraes ruled that a letter written by the ex-president and shared by the senator on social media over the weekend breached the terms of Jair Bolsonaro's house arrest.



The visitation ban could be a setback for the younger Bolsonaro's plans to run against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brazil's presidential election later this year, with the first round scheduled for Oct. 4 and a potential runoff for Oct. 25.



Moraes said in his decision that the house arrest's terms included a ban on social media use, directly or through third parties.