A Brazilian judge on Thursday ordered the immediate transfer of jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro to a prison with “more favourable” conditions.
The 70-year-old former leader will move to a special detention unit with a kitchen, private outdoor area and a double bed at a prison complex in the capital Brasilia, according to a ruling seen by Agence France-Presse.
Brazil’s Supreme Court convicted Bolsonaro last year of plotting a coup to cling to power following his narrow 2022 re-election loss to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva , sentencing him to more than 27 years in prison.
Prosecutors said the scheme failed because of a lack of support from military brass.
The former president has so far been serving his sentence in a room at a federal police facility in the capital.
Bolsonaro’s lawyers have appealed, in vain, for him to be permitted house arrest on health grounds.
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