Bolsonaro Seeks Hospital Transfer and Humanitarian House Arrest as Judge Suspends Ex-Presidential Benefits

Overview

• Bolsonaro’s lawyers asked Justice Alexandre de Moraes to authorize an immediate move to Brasília’s DF Star hospital for a 5–7 day admission to perform a phrenic nerve block and an inguinal herniorrhaphy.
• The petition also requests conversion of his sentence to humanitarian house arrest with electronic monitoring, citing a concrete health risk and detailing comorbidities such as severe sleep apnea, hypertension and coronary disease.
• The defense seeks permission for medical transport without prior notice or, in urgent cases, with later justification, and argues a past ankle-bracelet incident stemmed from medication-induced confusion.
• Moraes ordered that any new media interview requests be filed only with the prior consent of Bolsonaro’s legal team, and the medical and domiciliary requests remain pending.
• In a separate ruling, federal judge Pedro Pereira Pimenta preliminarily suspended Union-provided staff, vehicles and drivers for Bolsonaro during closed-regime custody and ordered a detailed cost report, while Bolsonaro continues to be held at the Federal Police facility in Brasília serving a 27-year, 3-month sentence.