Overview
- Bolsonaro was detained preventatively in Brasilia, with federal police confirming he was undergoing intake exams and a person familiar with the matter linking the move to terms of his house arrest.
- He was sentenced in September by a five-judge Supreme Court panel to 27 years and three months for plotting to overturn the 2022 election.
- The courts have not issued a final arrest order in the coup case because his appeals have not been exhausted.
- On Friday, his legal team asked Justice Alexandre de Moraes to permit him to serve any sentence under house arrest, citing recurring intestinal problems and referencing the Fernando Collor de Mello precedent.
- For more than 100 days, he had been under strict house arrest in a separate case over alleged efforts to solicit U.S. interference in his legal troubles.