Overview
- Justice Alexandre de Moraes wrote in Thursday's decision that Jair Bolsonaro's condition had not worsened, rejecting the defense's claim of aggravation.
- Bolsonaro's lawyers filed the renewed request on Wednesday citing a concrete risk of sudden decline if he returned to prison.
- Doctors said his post‑operative recovery from a December 25 inguinal hernia surgery was progressing well and planned his discharge from the DF Star clinic on Thursday.
- He recently underwent phrenic nerve blocks to ease severe hiccup episodes, with his medical team also citing severe sleep apnea, gastritis and oesophagitis linked to lingering effects of a 2018 stabbing.
- The former president is serving a 27‑year sentence after a September 2025 conviction for conspiring to remain in power and has been jailed since late November, with his defense invoking the Fernando Collor home‑detention precedent without success.