SAO PAULO, Dec 19 (Reuters) – Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes authorized former President Jair Bolsonaro to leave the Federal Police Superintendency in Brasilia, where he is serving a 27-year prison sentence, for a surgical procedure at a hospital, local network GloboNews said on Friday.
Moraes’s decision follows a request from Bolsonaro’s defense lawyers last week, when they also asked the justice for the right-wing leader to serve his sentence under “humanitarian house arrest.” Bolsonaro was convicted in September for plotting a coup after losing the 2022 presidential election.
(Reporting by Fernando Cardoso; Editing by Kylie Madry)
