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Brazil’s ex-president Bolsonaro taken to hospital after feeling | |
unwell, son says | |
By Michael Rios, Duarte Mendonca, CNN | |
Updated: | |
5:53 PM EDT, Tue September 16, 2025 | |
Source: CNN | |
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro was taken to hospital on | |
Tuesday after feeling unwell, his eldest son, Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, | |
said on X. | |
The former leader was suffering a severe bout of hiccups, vomiting and | |
low blood pressure, according to his son. | |
“I ask for everyone’s prayers so that it is nothing serious,” the | |
younger Bolsonaro said. | |
Former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro said her husband underwent some | |
tests and is currently on intravenous medication. “Everything will be | |
all right!” she said on Instagram. | |
The news comes less than a week after the former president was | |
convicted of plotting a coup d’etat, which prosecutors said included | |
plans to potentially assassinate current President Luiz Inácio Lula da | |
Silva. | |
Bolsonaro, 70, was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison. He has | |
denied wrongdoing. | |
The far-right politician has previously been for pain related to a | |
wound sustained when he was stabbed on the campaign trail seven years | |
ago. | |
It’s unclear if his latest hospitalization is related to that attack. | |
CNN has reached out to the hospital for more information. | |
On Sunday, Bolsonaro also went to the hospital for a series of tests | |
and a medical procedure to remove skin lesions, reported. | |
Bolsonaro has been under since August for allegedly failing to comply | |
with restrictions imposed on him by the court as the trial was | |
underway, including on the use of social media and cell phones. | |
His son said Bolsonaro was accompanied to the hospital by correctional | |
police officers who guard his home in Brasília. “It was an | |
emergency,” he said. | |
This is a developing story and will be updated. | |
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