Overview
- Justice Alexandre de Moraes rejected Bolsonaro’s latest humanitarian petition a day after it was filed, finding no clinical worsening and sufficient care in custody.
- Doctors expect Bolsonaro to be discharged from Brasília’s DF Star hospital after hernia surgery and procedures for persistent hiccups, with a return to federal police detention.
- Bolsonaro is serving a 27-year sentence following a September conviction on charges tied to efforts to overturn the 2022 election, including attempted coup and armed conspiracy.
- He was remanded to prison in November after damaging his ankle monitor in what the court considered an escape attempt, ending a period of house arrest.
- Congress passed a bill that could shorten his sentence, which President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he will veto, as Senator Flavio Bolsonaro positions himself for the 2026 race.