US EditionFormer Brazilian President Bolsonaro Returns to Prison After Hospital Exams
Bolsonaro underwent brain scans after a fall in prison, with tests showing mild trauma but no need for further treatment, Supreme Court-authorized.
- On Wednesday, Former President Jair Bolsonaro was granted a brief leave from his 27-year prison sentence to undergo three brain tests at DF Star hospital, Brasilia, and his wife said he returned to prison by 4:30pm.
- After falling overnight Monday to Tuesday, his wife Michelle Bolsonaro and son Carlos Bolsonaro said on social media Tuesday they were frustrated he hadn't been sent to hospital, and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes authorized the hospital trip citing a federal police health report.
- De Moraes authorized a tomography, brain scan and brain wave test requested by Bolsonaro's lawyers; DF Star hospital found mild soft-tissue thickening but no further treatment was needed, and Bolsonaro was conscious with a superficial cut.
- After repeated hospital stays since a 2018 stabbing, Bolsonaro returned to prison last Thursday following double hernia surgery and a September conviction by a panel of Supreme Court justices.
- At around 4:30pm, Michelle Bolsonaro, wife, said on Instagram the exams had been carried out and the family was awaiting results after the federal police report noted mild head trauma.
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Bolsonaro Falls Out of Bed, Lands in Hospital
Former President Jair Bolsonaro was granted a brief leave Wednesday from his 27-year prison sentence for a coup attempt so that he could undergo medical tests at a hospital in the capital after he fell from his bed. Police escorted the 70-year-old Bolsonaro from the federal police's headquarters in Brasilia...
Former Brazilian President Bolsonaro returns to prison after hospital exams
BRASILIA, Jan 7 - Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro returned to prison on Wednesday after undergoing a series of hospital exams for a fall and knock to the head, his wife Michelle Bolsonaro said in a post on Instagram. Read more at straitstimes.com.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was granted permission Wednesday to briefly leave prison, where he is serving a 27-year sentence for an attempted coup, to undergo medical tests at a hospital in the capital after falling out of bed. Bolsonaro, 70, was escorted by police officers from the federal police headquarters in Brasilia to the DF Star hospital, arriving around noon for three brain scans. Bolsonaro's wife, Mi…
Only last week, the ex-president of Brazil sentenced to attempted coup had been released from the hospital. After a fall in prison, Jair Bolsonaro returned to the hospital.
The former president Jair Bolsonaro fell on his way and had a mild cranial trauma, reported on this Thursday (7) the Brazilian doctor Caiado. He is one of the professionals who cares for the former president. Bolsonaro returned to the DF Star Hospital in Brazil, after authorization from the Minister of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes, so that he could leave the cell in the Superintendence of the Federal Police (PF) where he w…
Allegations of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) appeared on this Thursday (7) against the decision of the Minister of the STF (Federal Tribunal) Alexandre de Moraes, who cancelled the opening of a union of the CFM (Federal Council of Medicine) and determined that the PF (Federal Police) was with the deposition of the president of the entity. The controversy began following the disclosure of a CFM note asking for medical assistance from Bolso…
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