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McAfee back in jail after hospital stay

Software mogul John McAfee was hospitalized briefly yesterday after being denied political asylum in Guatemala — as his lawyers said they were making a last-ditch effort to keep him from being flown back to Belize for questioning about the killing of a fellow American expatriate.

McAfee told The Associated Press that he suffered chest pains overnight but didn’t believe he had a heart attack.

A government doctor who examined him agreed, blaming his problems on stress.

McAfee had been moved from an immigration center to a police-run hospital earlier in the day. He was released from the hospital and taken back to the detention center last night.

The government did not say why his asylum request was denied.

McAfee issued a plea on his blog for the public to petition Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina to let him remain.

“Please email the President of Guatemala and beg him to allow the court system to proceed, to determine my status in Guatemala, and please support the political asylum that I am asking for,” the post read.