This Tuesday, a judge from Brazil’s supreme court authorized the former president Jair Bolsonaro to temporarily serve his sentence in “humanitarian” house arrestas soon as he leaves the hospital where he is admitted to treat bronchopneumonia.
Sentenced to 27 years in prison for coupBolsonaro, 71, will be confined at his home in Brasilia for a period of 90 days, extendable, according to the magistrate’s decision.
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The former president has been in and out of the hospital in recent months for various reasons. health conditionsincluding surgery and a hiccup attack; However, he had not been able to obtain authorization to serve his sentence outside of prison.
“Thank you, my God!” his wife Michelle Bolsonaro wrote on Instagram along with an image of the news.
Only at the beginning of March it was announced that he entered intensive therapy for one “bilateral bacterial bronchopneumonia” which he acquired while he was in a prison in Brasilia, to which he was transferred after complaining about the conditions of the first prison to which he was sent.
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Previously, Jair Bolsonaro suffered a fall inside his cellso he was admitted to a hospital for treatment, but he returned to prison after recovering.
The change of prison occurred after his defense requested house arrest again and that he not return to prison.‘staff room’ del Papuda Penitentiary Center, in the Brazilian capital, where he has been serving his sentence since January.
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