Overview
- Bolsonaro, who was discharged Friday after two weeks at DF Star hospital in Brasília, returned home to start the court-ordered confinement.
- Justice Alexandre de Moraes of Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court approved a humanitarian house arrest for 90 days with electronic ankle monitoring and judicial oversight.
- Doctors diagnosed bacterial bronchopneumonia caused by aspiration on March 13, and he spent ten days in intensive care before moving to a ward and stabilizing.
- He had been jailed after a Supreme Court conviction for leading an attempted coup and was moved to the hospital from Papuda prison following high fever, low oxygen levels, and chills.
- At the end of the 90 days, an official medical exam will determine whether he returns to prison or continues under the humanitarian measure.