Overview
- The news portal G1 reports Jair Bolsonaro was discharged on Thursday and is returning to the prison where he is serving his sentence.
- CNN Brasil says Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes rejected the defense’s humanitarian request on January 1.
- Bolsonaro’s lawyers had asked a special court task group on December 31 to allow home confinement until he left the hospital.
- A court authorized surgery on December 20, with procedures including repair of a bilateral inguinal hernia, and media also report treatment related to persistent hiccups.
- Bolsonaro is serving a 27-year, three-month sentence after the Supreme Court convicted him on September 12, 2025 of conspiring to attempt a coup.