Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), granted this Monday (22) humanitarian house arrest to General Augusto Heleno, former minister of the Institutional Security Office (GSI) of the government of former president Jair Bolsonaro.
Heleno must wear an electronic ankle monitor and hand over his passports. Furthermore, soldiers are prohibited from using cell phones and accessing social media.
Sentenced to 21 years in prison in the criminal action for the coup plot, Heleno has been in prison since November 25th, when he began serving his sentence in a closed regime. He is held in a room at the Planalto Military Command (CMP), in Brasília.
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Moraes responded to the request for house arrest in defense of the general. According to the defense, Heleno is 78 years old and has serious health problems.
When granting house arrest, the minister cited the results of the official medical report prepared by Federal Police experts.
According to doctors, Heleno has an initial “dementia condition” and remains in a closed regime as it worsens the general’s health.
“In a custodial institution, it inexorably leads to progressive and irreversible cognitive decline, which tends to have its evolution accelerated and aggravated in a prison environment, with the subject in relative isolation and the absence of protective and delaying stimuli, in particular, family life and assisted autonomy”, concluded the report.
