Senate approves the request for Damares to inspect Bolsonaro’s house arrest

The Federal Senate Human Rights Commission approved on Wednesday, 13, a request from Senator Damares Alves (Republicans-DF) for a visit to be made at the house of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), who is under house arrest.

The date and names of the senators who will participate in the activity have not yet been informed. In the request, the senator justifies that the diligence is “a legitimate act of supervision, focused on the preservation of rights guaranteed to all Brazilian citizens”.

Damares, ally and former minister of Bolsonaro, cites in the document a “serious situation of violation of fundamental guarantees in our country” and states that the objective is to “verify the conditions in which the house arrest is fulfilled”, “including the preservation of physical and psychological integrity, as well as the regularity and proportionality of imposed restrictive measures”.

Bolsonaro’s arrest was decreed in early August for non -compliance with the STF order not to use social networks, including through third parties.

Minister Alexandre de Moraes, rapporteur of the case in which the former president is a defendant in court for attempted coup d’état, understood that the precautionary measures were breached for Bolsonaro to have conveyed content on his children’s social networks.

On Wednesday, 12, Moraes authorized Bolsonaro to leave the house arrest to take exams next Saturday, 16, following the request of the defense.

In the same decision, visits were also authorized by Senator Rogério Marinho (PL-RN), Deputy Altineu Côrtes (PL-RJ), Deputy Mayor of São Paulo Ricardo Mello Araújo (PL) and state deputy Tomé Abduch (Republicanos-SP). Already last week, doctors were allowed to visit Bolsonaro.