Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro allowed to serve 27-year sentence at home due to failing health

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Jair Bolsonaro recently was put into intensive care for a few days because of kidney problems and other issues. Photograph: Sérgio Lima/AFP/Getty Images View image in fullscreen Jair Bolsonaro recently was put into intensive care for a few days because of kidney problems and other issues. Photograph: Sérgio Lima/AFP/Getty Images Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro allowed to serve 27-year sentence at home due to failing health The former president was in prison for a coup attempt after losing the country’s last election Brazil ’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has been granted permission to serve his 27-year sentence for a coup attempt at home instead of in prison because of his failing health. Bolsonaro recently was put in intensive care for a few days because of kidney problems and other issues.

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Jair Bolsonaro recently was put into intensive care for a few days because of kidney problems and other issues.
Photograph: Sérgio Lima/AFP/Getty Images
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Jair Bolsonaro recently was put into intensive care for a few days because of kidney problems and other issues.
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Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro allowed to serve 27-year sentence at home due to failing health
The former president was in prison for a coup attempt after losing the country’s last election
Brazil
’s former president
Jair Bolsonaro
has been granted permission to serve his 27-year sentence for a coup attempt at home instead of in prison because of his failing health.
The decision by supreme court justice Alexandre de Moraes followed Bolsonaro’s hospitalization since 13 March for pneumonia, one of
several health problems the former leader has faced
since he was stabbed by a man in 2018 before he was elected president.
Bolsonaro recently was put in intensive care for a few days because of kidney problems and other issues. His doctors did not say when he would leave the hospital in Brasília, but his overall condition has improved.
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In the decision, Moraes said the house arrest was going to last for an initial period of 90 days.
“After this period, the presence of the requirements necessary for maintaining humanitarian house arrest will be reassessed, including a medical examination if needed,” the justice wrote.
Lawyers for the rightwing leader, who governed from 2019 to 2022, had long sought Moraes’s permission for him to serve his sentence under “humanitarian house arrest”, but the justice had previously denied all requests.
On Monday, Paulo Gonet, Brazil’s attorney general, paved the way for Bolsonaro to be put in house imprisonment instead of returning to prison.
One of Bolsonaro’s sons, senator Flávio Bolsonaro, has said he will run for the presidency in October. Polls show he is in a dead heat with incumbent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Historically, Brazil’s supreme court only reverses house arrest if a detainee’s health improves dramatically, or if there is violation of the established rules, such as not making public statements, posting on social media or giving interviews to the media.
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- Eight arrested for ‘brutal’ attack on capybara in Brazil Read more In the decision, Moraes said the house arrest was going to last for an initial period of 90 days. “After this period, the presence of the requirements necessary for maintaining humanitarian house arrest will be reassessed, including a medical examination if needed,” the justice wrote.
- One of Bolsonaro’s sons, senator Flávio Bolsonaro, has said he will run for the presidency in October.

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