Bolsonaro lawyers seek house arrest for coup plot sentence


FILE PHOTO: Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro looks on from his home in Brasilia, Brazil, September 29, 2025. REUTERS/Diego Herculano/File Photo

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Lawyers for former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro asked Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes to allow him to serve his 27-year sentence under house arrest, citing health concerns, a document seen by Reuters on Friday showed.

They said the 70-year-old former president's recurring intestinal issues stemming from a 2018 stabbing while campaigning, would make incarceration life threatening.

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