Moraes dismisses Bolsonaro’s request for house arrest after preventive

Minister Alexandre de Moraes denied, this Saturday (22), the request made by the defense of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) so that, in a possible decree of the execution of the sentence for a coup d’état, it would be served at home.

In the request filed this Friday (21), the lawyers state that the former president’s health condition would make it unfeasible for him to serve his sentence in a prison unit.

With the conversion of Bolsonaro’s legal status to preventive detention, the minister stated that the request lost purpose.

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“In view of the decree of preventive detention of the defendant Jair Messias Bolsonaro, under the terms of article 21, IX, of the Internal Regulations of the Federal Supreme Court, I consider the requests for granting humanitarian house arrest and authorization of visits formulated on 11/21/2025 to be prejudiced,” he wrote.

Bolsonaro has been detained at the Federal Police Superintendency in Brasília since Saturday morning, after the minister reported an escape attempt based on the violation of the electronic ankle bracelet.