Overview
- Four Supreme Court justices unanimously upheld Alexandre de Moraes’s order converting Jair Bolsonaro’s house arrest to pretrial detention.
- Monitoring alerts at 12:08 a.m. and police evidence showed burn marks and damage to the ankle tag, and court video recorded Bolsonaro admitting he used a soldering iron.
- Bolsonaro told a custody hearing that a recent medication change triggered paranoia and hallucinations; his doctors said they suspended a drug after the episode.
- Judges pointed to the planned supporters’ vigil near his residence and the proximity of foreign embassies as factors increasing escape risk.
- The former president is held at federal police headquarters in Brasília as he appeals his roughly 27-year coup-plot conviction and seeks humanitarian house arrest.