RIO ⁠DE JANEIRO, Dec ⁠9 (Reuters) – Defense lawyers for Brazilian former ⁠President Jair Bolsonaro requested on ​Tuesday his removal from jail ‍to a hospital for “surgical procedures”, according to a document seen by ​Reuters.

The lawyers also reaffirmed their request for the right-wing leader to ​serve his 27-year prison sentence ⁠under “humanitarian house arrest.”

Last month, ‌Bolsonaro began serving his sentence for unsuccessfully ⁠plotting a ​coup against his successor, President ‌Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, after losing ‍the 2022 election. He is being held at a Federal Police Superintendency in Brasilia.

(Reporting by Rodrigo Viga Gaier; Writing by Fernando Cardoso, Editing by ⁠Iñigo Alexander and ‌Himani ⁠Sarkar)