Overview
- Jair Bolsonaro remains hospitalized in Brasilia after surgery for a bilateral inguinal hernia and multiple procedures to address persistent hiccups, with doctors describing his condition as stable.
- Justice Alexandre de Moraes rejected the urgent home-detention petition, ruling the defense presented no new facts and noting that prescribed care can be provided at the Federal Police facility.
- Doctors performed right and left phrenic nerve blocks and a subsequent reinforcement; the hiccup crises have lessened but continue, and treatment will include medications and possible speech therapy.
- Medical updates cited episodic hypertension under control and an endoscopy that confirmed gastritis and erosive esophagitis, with follow-up care planned after discharge.
- Bolsonaro, 70, has been serving a roughly 27-year sentence since late November for leading a plot to subvert the 2022 transition, and he must return to custody once cleared by physicians.