Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday rejected former President Jair Bolsonaro’s bid to have his prison term for plotting a coup commuted to house arrest.

Defense lawyers filed the request a day earlier, arguing the far-right leader faced a “real risk of a sudden deterioration” in health and should therefore serve his 27-year sentence at home.

Bolsonaro, 70, has been hospitalized for more than a week follo

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