BRASILIA, Brazil\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro left a hospital on Thursday, a week after he underwent a double hernia surgery. A car took the embattled ex-leader back to the federal police headquarters where he is serving his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup d\u2019etat aimed at keeping him in office. <\/p>\n
Hospital DF Star confirmed Bolsonaro was released after some other minor medical procedures after the double hernia surgery that was completed without complications.<\/p>\n
Brazil\u2019s Supreme Court had approved the release of the former president, who governed from 2019 to 2022, for the surgery.<\/p>\n
Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who sentenced Bolsonaro to prison, denied the former president\u2019s request for house arrest after he leaves the hospital.<\/p>\n
Bolsonaro has undergone several other medical procedures since he was stabbed in the abdomen during a campaign rally in 2018. <\/p>\n
Bolsonaro has no contact with the few other inmates at the federal police headquarters in Brasilia, where he is held and where his 130-square-foot room has a bed, private bathroom, air conditioning, television and desk. <\/p>\n
In December, Bolsonaro shook Brazilian politics again by appointing his eldest son, Sen. Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro, to become his political party\u2019s presidential candidate in next year\u2019s election, challenging incumbent Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva.<\/p>\n
Neither Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro nor former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro made comments about the former leader returning to prison after his hospitalization.<\/p>\n
Michelle Bolsonaro said in her social media channels that \u201cthere is a Brazil of good people which loves you and prays for you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will beat the bad days,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
Bolsonaro and several of his allies were convicted in September by a panel of Supreme Court justices of attempting to overthrow Brazil\u2019s democratic system following his 2022 election defeat.<\/p>\n
The plot included plans to kill Lula, Vice President Geraldo Alckmin and de Moraes. There was also a plan to encourage an insurrection in early 2023.<\/p>\n
Bolsonaro was also convicted on charges that include leading an armed criminal organization and attempting the violent abolition of the democratic rule of law. He has denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRASILIA, Brazil\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro left a hospital on Thursday, a week after he underwent a double…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[62229,62224,6908,62228,204,62226,38607,1583,14367,48,52,51,47,50,49,62227,3230,2901,2699,62225,2214],"class_list":["post-117017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-air-conditioning","tag-bolsonaro","tag-brazil","tag-double-hernia-surgery","tag-election","tag-federal-police-headquarter","tag-former-president","tag-hospital","tag-jail","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-other-minor-medical-procedure","tag-plan","tag-prison","tag-return","tag-sen-flavio-bolsonaro","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}