Jair Bolsonaro returns to prison. The Brazilian justice rejected his request to serve his sentence under house arrest

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro will return to prison after a series of medical interventions, after the Supreme Court rejected his lawyers' request to serve his sentence under house arrest, DPA and Agerpres report.

The court, in a decision published on Thursday, said the former president must be transferred back to his cell at the federal police headquarters in Brasilia as soon as he is discharged from the hospital.

Jair Bolsonaro, aged 70, recently underwent a double hernia operation and an intervention to treat chronic hiccups. In recent years, he has undergone numerous surgeries, after being stabbed during the 2018 election campaign, being seriously injured.

Bolsonaro, who was president between 2019 and 2022, has been in prison since the end of November, serving a sentence of more than 27 years.

The Supreme Court found that, after losing the election for a new mandate, he conspired with his allies to stage a coup against the government of his successor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Citing Bolsonaro's fragile state of health, his lawyers asked for permission to serve his sentence under house arrest. But Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes rejected the request, citing repeated violations of court-imposed conditions and Bolsonaro's alleged attempts to flee before incarceration.