RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Defense lawyers for Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro requested on Tuesday his removal from jail to a hospital for “surgical procedures”, according to a document seen by Reuters.
The lawyers also reaffirmed their request for the right-wing leader to serve his 27-year prison sentence under “humanitarian house arrest.”
Last month, Bolsonaro began serving his sentence for unsuccessfully plotting a coup against his successor, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, after losing the 2022 election. He is being held at a Federal Police Superintendency in Brasilia.
(Reporting by Rodrigo Viga Gaier; Writing by Fernando Cardoso, Editing by Iñigo Alexander and Himani Sarkar)
