The convicted former leader rushed to a hospital in Brasilia after getting sick at his residence, his son says.
Former Brazilian President Jea Bolsonaro, who was put in prison last week for plotting a coup, was rushed to the hospital after falling ill during house arrest, his son said.
Tuesday’s emergency visit is the second trip to the hospital by the 70-year-old former Army captain since his conviction.
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Bolsonaro has had repeated intestinal problems since being stabbed during a 2018 campaign that involved at least six related surgeries. The final step is the 12-hour procedure in April. He won the election that year and ruled from 2019 to 2023.
“Bolsonaro felt sick some time ago in a tough match of hiccups, vomiting and hypotension,” his son Flavio wrote to X:
“He was taken to the defender star. [Hospital] “The corrections officers protecting their home in Brasilia are accompanied by corrections officers because it was an emergency,” he wrote.
Bolsonaro visited the same hospital on Sunday, removing eight skin lesions and sending them for a biopsy.
A committee of Supreme Court judges on Thursday discovered that the former leader had committed a crime for planning a coup after losing the 2022 election to current President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva.
They were sentenced to him in prison for 27 years and three months.
However, the sentence does not immediately send him to prison. The court panel will have up to 60 days to make the judgment public after the decision, and once it is done, Bolsonaro’s lawyers will file a five-day complaint for clarification.
Bolsonaro denied the misconduct and said he was a victim of political persecution. President Donald Trump also called the trial a “witch hunt,” imposing a 50% tariff on Brazilian goods and cites the lawsuit against Bolsonaro among other issues.
The former Brazilian leader has been under house arrest since August, when Trump allegedly seeks pressure on the court. He was already wearing an ankle monitor.
Separately, on Tuesday, a federal court ordered Bolsonaro to pay one million Reais ($188,865) in damages for collective moral harm caused by racist comments he made while in office.
The investigation came from a statement from Bolsonaro in May 2021 to black supporters who approached him and asked him to take a photo.
The former president joked, saying he was watching a cockroach in the man’s hair. He also compared the man’s hairstyle to “cockroach breeding grounds,” meaning his hair was dirty.
There were no immediate comments from his legal team after the latest court order.
His defense previously told the media that the former leader’s statement was intended as a joke rather than a racist statement, and denied the intent to cause a crime.
Meanwhile, public opinion in Brazil has been split into Bolsonaro’s prison sentences on coup charges, with far-right politicians making several plans to overturn or cut prison term.
In Congress, they gathered behind the pardon bill based on a campaign to release his supporters who stormed and destroyed government buildings in January 2023.
Governor of Sao Paulo Tarticio de Freitas has repeatedly promised Bolsonaro to be a major ally and will repeatedly lent his former leader if he becomes president in next year’s election. The court banned Bolsonaro from taking office until 2030, but the former president argued earlier this year that he would compete in the 2026 presidential election.
Incumbent president, Lula welcomed Bolsonaro’s ruling as a “historical decision” following months of investigations that discovered plans to assassinate him, the vice president and Supreme Court judges.
Bolsonaro’s beliefs stated that it would “protect” Brazilian institutions and the democratic rule of law.
