Lawyers for former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro on Friday requested that he be allowed to serve his 27-year prison sentence at home, arguing he is too sick to go to jail.

Bolsonaro, 70, was in September convicted for leading a botched coup bid in which he attempted to prevent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from taking office after his 2022 election loss.

An appeal of his sentence was rejected last week, bringing him one step closer to prison.

His lawyers said they would be filing further appeals, but sought to get ahead of plans to put Bolsonaro in jail.

Sending Bolsonaro to prison "will have serious consequences and represents a risk to his life," his lawyers said in a petition to the Supreme Court.

They said Bolsonaro's "health condition is already deeply debilitated."

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