Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was transferred to a regular hospital room in the capital of Brasilia as he recovers from pneumonia, one of his doctors said Monday.
The news of the far-right leader's improvement came hours after Brazil's attorney general paved the way for him to be put in house imprisonment instead of being returned to jail.
Bolsonaro, who governed between 2019 and 2022, is serving a 27-year sentence for leading a coup attempt in 2023.
Dr. Brasil Caiado told reporters in Brasilia that there's no established date for Bolsonaro to be discharged. The former president was hospitalized on March 13 after feeling ill at the Papuda penitentiary in the Brazilian capital. Three days later, the 71-year-old was put in semi-intensive care.
The embattled ex-leader was transferred from the local federal police headquarters to a larger cell in January. His family and allies have repeatedly asked Brazil’s Supreme Court to allow him to carry out his sentence, which he began serving in November, under house arrest.
Attorney General Paulo Gonet agreed with Bolsonaro's family in a decision published earlier and suggested to Justice Alexandre de Moraes to send the former president home with an ankle monitor to serve his sentence.
“The clinical evolution of the former president, as shown by the medical team that took care of him in the latest incident, recommends” house imprisonment, Gonet said in his decision.
De Moraes, who oversaw Bolsonaro's coup case, is yet to rule. He often agrees with Gonet's suggestions.
FILE - Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro, temporarily allowed out of house arrest for medical treatment, departs a hospital in Brasilia, Brazil, Sept. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Dr. Kermit Gosnell, an abortion clinic doctor sentenced to life for killing three babies who had been delivered alive, died earlier this month at a Pennsylvania hospital, prison officials said Monday.
Gosnell's grimy West Philadelphia clinic became known as the “house of horrors." Former employees testified he routinely performed illegal abortions past Pennsylvania’s 24-week limit, that he delivered babies who were still moving, whimpering or breathing, and that he and his assistants dispatched the newborns by “snipping” their spines, as he referred to it.
Department of Corrections spokesperson Maria Bivens said Gosnell, 85, died March 1 at a hospital outside the prison system. He had most recently been incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution-Smithfield, about 60 miles (96.5 kilometers) south of Pittsburgh. A cause of death was not disclosed.
Gosnell had portrayed himself as an advocate for poor and desperate women. In addition to three counts of first-degree murder, he also was convicted of multiple other crimes, including violations of Pennsylvania’s abortion laws.
Conditions at his clinic became known during a 2010 investigation of prescription drug trafficking. Investigators described a foul-smelling place with bags and bottles of fetuses and jars of body parts, along with bloodstained furniture and dirty medical instruments.
State authorities had failed to conduct routine inspections of all its abortion clinics for 15 years by the time Gosnell’s facility was raided. In the scandal’s aftermath, two top state health officials were fired and Pennsylvania imposed tougher rules for clinics.
Gosnell did not testify at his 2013 trial, but his defense attorney argued that none of the fetuses was born alive and that any movements were posthumous twitching or spasms.
FILE - Dr. Kermit Gosnell is seen during an interview with the Philadelphia Daily News at his attorney's office on March 8, 2010, in Philadelphia. (Yong Kim/Philadelphia Daily News via AP, File)
