Brazil's Supreme Court allows Bolsonaro to leave prison for surgery

Former president is granted permission to leave jail for a hernia operation on Christmas Day.

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Bolsonaro is currently serving a 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup after he lost the last election in 2022.

Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Tuesday granted permission for Bolsonaro to temporarily leave prison and be transferred to a hospital on Wednesday for a hernia operation on 25 December.

Bolsonaro, 70, has faced ongoing health complications since being stabbed in the abdomen during a 2018 presidential campaign.

In April, the right-wing former president underwent intestinal surgery. By November, Justice Moraes, who also oversaw his trial, mandated that Bolsonaro be given full-time medical care.