(Adnkronos) – The former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was discharged from the hospital yesterday, after spending several days under observation following three surgical procedures. He has already left the medical center and has been transferred back to the Federal Police headquarters in Brasilia, to continue serving his 27-year prison sentence for attempted coup, after the Supreme Court, a few hours earlier, had rejected his request for house arrest.
Bolsonaro left the hospital aboard a convoy of Military Police escort and unmarked black cars, which departed from the complex’s garage around 6:40 PM (10:40 PM Italian time). From there, according to Agência Brasil, he was taken to the Federal Police headquarters in the Brazilian capital, where he has been serving his sentence since last November.
His return to custody comes after Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes rejected on Thursday afternoon, as he had done two weeks earlier, the request by the former leader’s lawyers to confirm house arrest, after his release from the hospital for humanitarian reasons. The judge ruled that Bolsonaro’s defense did not present “new facts that could overturn the reasons for the decision to reject the request for humanitarian house arrest issued on December 19, 2025”.
The former president, initially undergoing surgery for an inguinal hernia, also underwent surgery in the following days, so that medical staff could block the right and left phrenic nerves – which control diaphragm movements – and thus stop the persistent hiccups, from which he has repeatedly suffered in recent months.
However, the document emphasizes that medical staff, including a physiotherapist, will continue to have full access to treat him, provide him with medication, and also deliver “food prepared by his family members”.
The latest surgical procedures add to the list of those Bolsonaro, who is 70 years old, has undergone for various abdominal problems, hernias, and intestinal obstructions he has suffered since being stabbed in 2018, when he was a candidate. The former president has been serving a 27-year and three-month prison sentence since late November for the attempted coup he led between 2022 and 2023 against the current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
