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São Paulo.- Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, in prison for plotting a coup, suffered "minor injuries" after falling during the early hours of this Tuesday in his cell and requested to go to the hospital for tests, but the Supreme Court dismissed that request.
The former president told the agents guarding him at the Federal Police Superintendence in Brasilia, where he is serving a 27-year prison sentence for coup-mongering, that he "had suffered a fall during the early hours of the morning", according to the institution in a note.
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A Federal Police doctor examined him and found "minor injuries", although he did not see the need to transfer him to the hospital. However, the far-right leader underwent a new evaluation by his private doctor, who asked the authorities to take him to the hospital for "the performance of tests". "My love is not well. During the early hours of the morning, while I was sleeping, he had a crisis, fell, and hit his head on a piece of furniture", expressed the former governor's wife, Michelle Bolsonaro, who asked for prayers for her husband's health. The transfer of the former head of state (2019-2022) was rejected by magistrate Alexandre de Moraes, of the Supreme Court, the court in charge of his imprisonment, who saw "no need" to allow his hospitalization, taking into account the medical report. However, the judge asked the former president's defense to detail which medical examinations they consider necessary, in order to assess whether they can be carried out within the prison system. Bolsonaro, who has been serving a sentence since November, was admitted to a hospital in Brasilia in the last week of 2025 to undergo four surgical interventions. The first was to correct a bilateral inguinal hernia, and the other three were intended to partially block the diaphragm nerves in order to alleviate his recurrent hiccups. Bolsonaro, 70 years old, has been suffering for months from episodes of dizziness, hiccups and vomiting, disorders that he and his entourage attribute to the stabbing he suffered from a mentally ill person in the abdomen during a rally of the 2018 electoral campaign. On September 11th, the former president was convicted by the Supreme Court for "leading" a plot to try to "perpetuate himself in power" after losing the 2022 presidential elections to the current head of state, the progressive Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Since the end of November, he has been serving his sentence at the headquarters of the Federal Police Superintendence in Brasilia. His lawyers have requested on several occasions that he be granted house arrest on "humanitarian" grounds given his delicate state of health, but, so far, the Supreme Court has denied all appeals.
