Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was released from hospital and taken to prison on Thursday after medical treatment for a hernia and persistent hiccups, Reuters reported, citing local media.
A Reuters witness saw official vehicles leaving the DF Star Hospital, where the 70-year-old was hospitalized, in the early evening, heading for the federal police superintendent in Brasilia, where he is serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup after losing the 2022 presidential election.
Earlier in the day, Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes rejected a request by Bolsonaro’s lawyers to allow the former president to serve his sentence under “humanitarian house arrest.”
According to the ruling, after receiving the necessary medical examination, Bolsonaro should “return to serving his prison sentence… at the Federal Police Superintendency.”
DF Star Hospital and the Federal Police declined to comment.
Bolsonaro, who was stabbed in the stomach during the 2018 campaign, has undergone hospitalization and surgery related to the attack.
The former president was admitted to the hospital last week for surgical procedures authorized by Moraes at the request of the former president’s lawyers.
(With inputs from Reuters)
