Brazil's Bolsonaro discharged from hospital, placed under house arrest

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March 27, 2026 9:14 AM EDT

FILE PHOTO: Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro looks on from his home as Sao Paulo’s Governor Tarcisio de Freitas (not pictured) leaves after a visit in Brasilia, Brazil September 29, 2025. REUTERS/Diego Herculano/File Photo

SAO PAULO, March ‌27 (Reuters) - Former ​Brazilian ​President Jair Bolsonaro was discharged from a hospital on Friday and transferred to ‌his home, where he will spend at least ⁠three months under what authorities described as "humanitarian house arrest."

Bolsonaro, ‌71, has been serving ‌a 27-year prison sentence since November for plotting a coup after losing the 2022 election to ​current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes earlier this week ⁠granted Bolsonaro permission to serve house arrest for 90 days due ​to health concerns. The far-right former president will be reassessed after that period to ​determine whether the measure should ‌be extended.

Bolsonaro, who led Brazil between 2019 and 2022, was admitted earlier ⁠this month to the intensive care unit of a hospital in Brasilia with an acute form of pneumonia ⁠and was treated with antibiotics.

"His progress over the past two ​days has been what we expected - smooth, without any complications," his doctor, Brasil Caiado, told reporters.

Bolsonaro has had a ‌history of hospitalizations and surgeries since he was stabbed in the abdomen ‌during a campaign event in 2018. Caiado said ⁠the former president is ‌set to return ​to hospital for shoulder surgery in late April.

(Reporting by Gabriel Araujo; Editing by Paul ‌Simao)


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