The legal team of former president Jair Bolsonaro, currently 71 years old, filed a petition addressed to Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court, requesting permission for family members to enter his home in Brasília. The document asks that daughter-in-law Fernanda Bolsonaro and her two granddaughters be able to enter the residence next Saturday, June 13, 2026. The Liberal Party politician is under house arrest in the federal capital, under continuous monitoring by security authorities. The measure requires prior approval from the Court for any change in the established routine.
Strict access control and electronic monitoring
Since the conversion of the sentence to the temporary home regime, which occurred in March 2026, the judiciary has determined strict isolation guidelines. Daily socializing without the need for prior judicial authorization is restricted exclusively to people who already live at the same address. This group is made up of his wife Michelle Bolsonaro, his daughter Laura and his stepdaughter Letícia, who have free movement in the property. Any other person, regardless of the degree of kinship, faces the limitations of the original order issued by the court.
Children with political activity or established majority, such as senator Flávio Bolsonaro, councilor Carlos Bolsonaro and Jair Renan, face a specific visitation schedule. The Federal Supreme Court stipulated limited windows of time, generally concentrated on Wednesdays and Saturdays, so that they can meet the father. Compliance with these rules is guaranteed by the use of an electronic ankle monitor connected to the Federal District’s penitentiary system, which issues immediate alerts if there is an attempt to circumvent the defined perimeter or failure to charge the equipment’s battery.
Rationale for the request for the entry of granddaughters
The request formalized on Tuesday, June 9, specifically focuses on the family nucleus of the former president’s firstborn. The two girls are the daughters of Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and Fernanda, who made their marriage official in 2010. As the children are minors, the mother’s presence becomes essential for travel and monitoring during their stay at their grandfather’s residence, justifying the inclusion of the daughter-in-law in the document sent to the court.
The Brazilian Code of Criminal Procedure provides for the maintenance of family ties during the execution of precautionary measures or sentences restricting freedom, which supports the defense’s request from the perspective of human dignity. However, as Fernanda Bolsonaro does not reside there and is not on the list of visitors with automatic access, formal communication to Alexandre de Moraes’ office became an unavoidable requirement. Lawyers argue that the meeting has a strictly family nature, without any bias towards external articulation.
Restrictions imposed by the Federal Supreme Court
The home regime granted to Jair Bolsonaro is not just a ban on leaving the house, it involves a package of precautionary measures other than prison. The STF’s objective is to ensure that the residential environment does not become a place for parallel dispatches or contact with other people being investigated. To ensure this isolation, the Court determined the following mandatory conditions:
- Uninterrupted use of electronic monitoring equipment with satellite tracking.
- Absolute prohibition on possession or use of cell phones, tablets and computers connected to the internet.
- Restriction of contact with other people under investigation or defendants in cases pending before the Supreme Court.
- Documented and justified petition required for the entry of any person outside the resident family nucleus.
Monitoring of these measures occurs continuously, with periodic reports sent to the office of the reporting minister. Breaking any of these precepts, such as the entry of a visitor not authorized by the condominium entrance, may result in the immediate revocation of the home benefit. In this scenario, the person being investigated would immediately return to a closed prison unit, as warned in the original March decision.
Medical history and transfer to residence
The former president’s current legal and housing situation is directly linked to his recent medical history. Before progressing to house arrest, Jair Bolsonaro underwent a period of hospitalization to treat an acute case of bronchopneumonia, which compromised his respiratory capacity. The advanced age of 71 years and the history of previous abdominal surgeries weighed on the medical board’s assessment, which recommended continuing treatment in an environment with a lower risk of hospital infections.
Based on the medical reports, Alexandre de Moraes accepted the transfer request, but imposed the current control structure to prevent the health condition from being used as a pretext to circumvent isolation. On previous occasions, the magistrate even authorized occasional visits by health professionals and made access more flexible for some relatives on specific dates, demonstrating that the Court analyzes each request individually and based on proven need.
Developments of the court decision
If the Federal Supreme Court issues a favorable opinion on the request filed this week, the decision will create a temporary exception in the rigid routine of the house. The authorization would allow a moment of coexistence between grandfather and granddaughters outside the regular window reserved only for sons. Experts in criminal law assess that concessions of this type reinforce the humanitarian nature of criminal execution, guaranteeing the psychological well-being of the detainee without compromising the security of the ongoing legal process.
On the other hand, the need to mobilize the country’s highest court to organize a simple family visit highlights the level of scrutiny over the politician’s steps. The defense team remains in constant dialogue through electronic petitions, transforming every detail of the domestic routine into a formal legal procedure. The expectation now revolves around the speed of Moraes’ office to analyze the document before the weekend stipulated for the meeting.
