Overview
- Federal Police executed a Supreme Court preventive detention in Brasília early Saturday and took Bolsonaro into custody around 6 a.m., after months of court-ordered home confinement.
- Bolsonaro was moved to Federal Police headquarters, underwent a medical-legal examination, and is being held in a special room for authorities.
- Authorities and local reports indicate the preventive detention does not initiate the 27-year, 3-month sentence, whose execution remains pending as appeals continue.
- His lawyers petitioned on Friday for him to serve the sentence at home on humanitarian grounds, citing complications from a 2018 stabbing, recent hospital visits, and skin cancer lesions removed this year.
- The Supreme Court also ordered preventive detention for ally Alexandre Ramagem, who was convicted in the same case and is reported to be outside Brazil.