US EditionBrazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro seeks house arrest for prison time citing health issues
Bolsonaro's legal team cites severe recurring health issues and a recent precedent to request house arrest for his 27-year sentence for leading a failed coup bid.
- On Friday, Bolsonaro's lawyers petitioned the Supreme Court to let him serve his 27 years and three months sentence at home following his September conviction for a coup attempt.
- Bolsonaro's lawyers said medical records show ongoing complications from a 2018 campaign stabbing, including intestinal problems, uncontrollable hiccups, severe sleep apnea requiring a CPAP machine, and frequent specialist care.
- Since August, Jair Bolsonaro, former President, has been under house arrest after violating precautionary measures, and Brazil's Supreme Court unanimously rejected an appeal earlier this month.
- Allies say the decision risks his life as Bolsonaro's lawyers warn imprisonment would deny critical care and a Public Defender's Office found Brasilia detention centre conditions precarious.
- Lawyers point to Collor's case to argue Bolsonaro's team will file another appeal and seek house arrest if rejected, noting his conviction for trying to block President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from taking office.
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Jair Bolsonaro was recently sentenced to 27 years in prison, the sentence is not yet final. His lawyers want Brazil's former head of state to be allowed to serve the sentence in house arrest – for »humanitarian reasons«.
The lawyers of the former president of Brazil filed an application with the Supreme Court to serve the sentence at home, arguing serious medical complications and life risk after the sentence to 27 years in prison
On Friday, the lawyers of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro filed an application with the Federal Supreme Court for the ex-mandator to serve his sentence for attempted coup d'état in house arrest on humanitarian grounds, shortly before Judge Alexandre de Moraes decides whether to go to prison definitively. Bolsonaro's defense argued that a prison environment such as that of Papuda's Penitentiary, a maximum security prison, would represen…
Bolsonaro was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison, which meant an immediate risk to his physical integrity.
The lawyers of former President Jair Bolsonaro, sentenced in September in a historic 27-year trial for leading a coup attempt after losing the elections, have asked the Supreme Court this Friday to allow him to serve his sentence “in humanitarian home prison” because his transfer to a prison “would have serious consequences and pose a risk to his life.” The defense cites as arguments various health problems. That is, the former President intends…
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