{"id":36005,"date":"2025-11-22T20:56:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T15:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=36005"},"modified":"2025-11-22T20:58:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T15:13:37","slug":"brazil-court-sends-ex-president-bolsonaro-to-prison-over-flight-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/brazil-court-sends-ex-president-bolsonaro-to-prison-over-flight-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil court sends ex-president Bolsonaro to prison over flight risk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro, on trial over a botched coup bid and under house arrest since August, was taken into custody on Saturday, according to his lawyer and a court document.<\/p>\n

The far-right firebrand was sentenced in September to 27 years in prison over a plot to stop leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from taking office in 2022 following Bolsonaro’s election defeat.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court judge leading the trial against Bolsonaro, Alexandre de Moraes, concluded Bolsonaro was a “high flight risk” and ordered pre-trial detention, according to the ruling seen by AFP.<\/p>\n

The ruling says Bolsonaro planned to break his ankle monitor during a rally planned for later on Saturday, called by his son outside the politician’s home in Brasilia.<\/p>\n

Sources close to the case earlier said the former leader had been taken into custody as a precaution and not to begin serving his sentence.<\/p>\n

Celso Vilardi, one of Bolsonaro’s lawyers, told AFP that “he has been imprisoned, but I don’t know why.”<\/p>\n

A police statement that did not mention the former president by name said officers had “executed a preventive arrest request in compliance with a Supreme Court decision.”<\/p>\n

Bolsonaro, who governed Brazil from 2019 to 2022, was placed under house arrest in August for violating measures imposed on him.<\/p>\n

He has been confined to an upscale condominium in the capital Brasilia, and monitored electronically.<\/p>\n

An appeal of his sentence was rejected last week, bringing him one step closer to serving his prison term.<\/p>\n

Bolsonaro’s lawyers have said they would file further appeals before a Monday deadline, but sought to get ahead of plans to put Bolsonaro in jail by requesting he be allowed to serve his sentence under house arrest.<\/p>\n

They had previously argued that Bolsonaro’s medical needs were “absolutely incompatible with a common prison environment.”<\/p>\n

– Health problems –<\/p>\n

Bolsonaro was convicted in September of leading a criminal organization that conspired to ensure his “authoritarian hold on power.”<\/p>\n

The plot involved a plan to assassinate Lula, his vice president Geraldo Alckmin, and the Supreme Court judge de Moraes.<\/p>\n

Sending Bolsonaro to prison “will have serious consequences and represents a risk to his life,” his lawyers said in a petition to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

They added Bolsonaro’s “health condition is already deeply debilitated.”<\/p>\n

Bolsonaro, 70, suffers ongoing consequences of a stab wound to the abdomen received during a knife attack on the campaign trail in 2018.<\/p>\n

His lawyers said that since he was placed under house arrest, Bolsonaro “has already been hospitalized three times — twice for tests and once due to a medical emergency.”<\/p>\n

They added he required continuous treatment for pulmonary infections, esophagitis and gastritis, and has skin cancer and suffered from sleep apnea that required him to sleep with a CPAP machine.<\/p>\n

In September, Bolsonaro’s doctor said his skin cancer lesions had been removed and that he required no further treatment at that stage.<\/p>\n

He also suffered from persistent “uncontrollable hiccups” which require daily medication and have caused shortness of breath and fainting, according to the petition.<\/p>\n

It highlighted the fact that in May, another former president, Fernando Collor de Mello, was allowed to serve his nearly nine-year sentence for corruption at home, on health grounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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