Former President Jair Bolsonaro, temporarily allowed out of house arrest for medical treatment, departs a hospital in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, Sep. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
A supporter holding a Bible waits for the arrival of former President Jair Bolsonaro at a hospital, after he was temporarily allowed out of house arrest for medical treatment, in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, Sep. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Brazil鈥檚 Bolsonaro goes to hospital for the second time since his coup trial conviction
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) 鈥 Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro went to the hospital Tuesday for the second time since his conviction last week on coup attempt charges, his latest ailments including vomiting and low blood pressure, his son said.
Former President Jair Bolsonaro, temporarily allowed out of house arrest for medical treatment, departs a hospital in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, Sep. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) 鈥 Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro went to the hospital Tuesday for the second time since his conviction last week on coup attempt charges, his latest ailments including vomiting and low blood pressure, his son said.
The right-wing politician went to the because of skin lesions, and doctors said at the time that tests revealed iron-deficiency anemia and signs of a recent pneumonia.
On Tuesday, Bolsonaro felt unwell 鈥渨ith a severe bout of hiccups, vomiting, and low blood pressure,鈥 his son, Sen. Fl谩vio Bolsonaro, wrote on X, adding that police had taken him to the hospital.
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A panel of Supreme Court justices on Thursday found the to illegally hang onto power despite to current President . They sentenced him to 27 years and three months in prison.
The sentence doesn鈥檛 immediately send Bolsonaro to prison. The court panel has up to 60 days to publish the ruling after the decision. Once it does, Bolsonaro鈥檚 lawyers have five days to file motions for clarification.
Bolsonaro has denied wrongdoing and said he is the victim of political persecution. U.S. President Donald Trump has agreed and called the trial a 鈥渨itch hunt,” and in July he on Brazilian good citing the case against Bolsonaro, among other issues.
The 70-year-old former president since early August has been imposed by the justice overseeing the case, Alexandre de Moraes, who said Bolsonaro had violated precautionary measures imposed on him for the trial. Bolsonaro already had been wearing an .
In late August, de Moraes increased security measures further and ordered that police conduct inspections of all vehicles leaving Bolsonaro鈥檚 residence and monitor the exterior of the house.
Bolsonaro has been hospitalized multiple times since before the 2018 presidential election. In April, he underwent surgery for a bowel obstruction.
Lawyers for Bolsonaro are expected to put his ill health forward as an argument in a plea for house arrest, rather than obliging him to serve the sentence in a detention center.
