Overview

• Bolsonaro’s lawyers filed a petition on Oct. 6 to allow a Michelle Bolsonaro–led prayer group to visit his Brasília residence on Oct. 8, citing prior authorizations from Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
• The request lists 16 attendees and follows a Oct. 1 decision in which Moraes reaffirmed the constitutional right to religious assistance for detainees and warned against using the group to expand general visitation.
• Allies are preparing to ask the Supreme Court to let Bolsonaro serve his 27-year sentence in domiciliary custody as legislative amnesty and sentence-reduction efforts lose momentum, according to reporting.
• Sources in the Court indicate any sentence execution would likely begin in a special Federal Police room before potential approval of home confinement, with a decision expected after pending appeals are addressed.
• Bolsonaro remains under home detention ordered on Aug. 4; his defense cites an October two-day hospitalization for hiccups and reflux, and a Sept. 24 motion to suspend house arrest still awaits Moraes’s review.