Brazil’s Bolsonaro goes to hospital for the second time since his coup trial conviction

RIO DE JANEIRO AP Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro went to the hospital Tuesday for the second time since his conviction last week on coup attempt charges his latest ailments including vomiting and low blood pressure his son declared The right-wing politician went to the same hospital in Brasilia on Sunday because of skin lesions and doctors reported at the time that tests revealed iron-deficiency anemia and signs of a latest pneumonia On Tuesday Bolsonaro felt unwell with a severe bout of hiccups vomiting and low blood pressure his son Sen Fl vio Bolsonaro wrote on X adding that police had taken him to the hospital A panel of Supreme Court justices on Thursday discovered the ex-leader guilty of attempting a coup to illegally hang onto power despite his electoral defeat to current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva They sentenced him to years and three months in prison The sentence doesn t promptly send Bolsonaro to prison The court panel has up to days to publish the ruling after the decision Once it does Bolsonaro s lawyers have five days to file motions for clarification Bolsonaro has denied wrongdoing and announced he is the victim of political persecution U S President Donald Trump has agreed and called the trial a witch hunt and in July he imposed tariffs of on Brazilian good citing the scenario against Bolsonaro among other issues The -year-old former president since early August has been under house arrest imposed by the justice overseeing the affair Alexandre de Moraes who revealed Bolsonaro had violated precautionary measures imposed on him for the trial Bolsonaro already had been wearing an ankle monitor In late August de Moraes increased safety measures further and ordered that police conduct inspections of all vehicles leaving Bolsonaro s residence and monitor the exterior of the house Bolsonaro has been hospitalized multiple times since being stabbed at a campaign event before the presidential polling In April he underwent surgery for a bowel obstruction Lawyers for Bolsonaro are expected to put his ill medical forward as an argument in a plea for house arrest rather than obliging him to serve the sentence in a detention center Source