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. President-elect Donald Trum

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

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 has denied former president Jair Bolsonaro permission to attend Donald Trump's upcoming inauguration in the United States, citing concerns he might flee justice amid ongoing investigations into alleged coup plotting.

Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's former president, has been invited to President-elect's Trump inauguration but he can't get out of the country. His passport was confiscated by the country's Supreme Court almost a year ago during an investigation of an alleged coup attempt,