Overview
- Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court, which ruled Tuesday, approved a 90‑day home detention for Jair Bolsonaro that begins only after his hospital discharge.
- The order requires an electronic ankle monitor and bars him from social media or recording audio or video, with the benefit subject to immediate revocation for any breach.
- While at home he may receive visits from his children and lawyers under the same rules used in prison, limited to set days such as Wednesdays and Saturdays.
- Bolsonaro has been hospitalized in Brasília since March 13 with bilateral bacterial pneumonia linked by doctors to bronchoaspiration from lasting effects of a 2018 stabbing, and he left intensive care Monday with IV antibiotics and respiratory therapy ongoing and no discharge date.
- The former president is serving a 27‑year sentence for leading an attempt to overturn the 2022 election, and the court said it will reassess his custody after the 90 days, including with a medical review if needed, following a prosecutor’s recommendation for a humanitarian transfer and recent meetings with his family.