Overview
- Judge Alexandre de Moraes, who ruled Tuesday, authorized temporary home detention for up to 90 days that begins only when Jair Bolsonaro is discharged from the hospital.
- Bolsonaro remains hospitalized in Brasília with bilateral bacterial pneumonia and is receiving IV antibiotics plus respiratory and motor physiotherapy after leaving intensive care on Monday.
- The order requires an electronic ankle monitor, bars him from social media or recording audio or video, limits family and legal visits to set days, and warns that any breach means an immediate return to prison.
- Prosecutors endorsed home confinement on humanitarian grounds, and the decision follows earlier denials and reported meetings between the judge, Bolsonaro’s son Flávio, and his wife Michelle.
- The court will reassess after 90 days, possibly with a medical exam, as Bolsonaro serves a roughly 27-year sentence for trying to overturn the 2022 election and as polling shows Flávio Bolsonaro running neck-and-neck with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.