Overview
- On Saturday July 18 the Supreme Federal Court rejected a formal request from Bolsonaro’s lawyers to let Argentine President Javier Milei visit Bolsonaro at his Brasília home.
- Judge Alexandre de Moraes imposed a 30-day general ban on visits and ordered that Bolsonaro not send or receive political or election-related messages until after the October election.
- Doctors, physiotherapists and Bolsonaro’s lawyers remain allowed to visit under the court order while all political contacts are barred.
- The tighter rules followed the online publication of a handwritten letter by Bolsonaro’s son Flávio endorsing his own likely candidacy, which the court treated as a breach of prior communication limits.
- Bolsonaro was convicted in September 2025 of leading an effort to overturn the 2022 election, is serving a more than 27-year sentence and has been under house arrest for health reasons since March, and Milei is still expected at the Liberal Party congress on July 25 where Flávio may be nominated.