The former Brazilian president arrested after being declared a escape threat
Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities determined he posed a concrete flight risk while under home confinement.
The former head of state was convicted of planning a armed takeover in last fall and given more than a 27-year term in incarceration, but he continued under home detention pending appeals.
Top Judicial Official Alexandre de Moraes said the action to imprison the elderly politician was a safety action after "new facts" emerged.
This encompassed trying to remove his ankle monitor and a call for a public vigil that could facilitate a possible escape.
Legal Document Reveals Escape Risks
In a paperwork permitting the custody, Justice Moraes said data from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the one-time head of state's plan to remove the tracking monitor to guarantee victory in his getaway".
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the confusion caused by the demonstration called by his offspring.
His son, his son Flávio, who serves as a congressional representative, called for a assembly of his backers near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday night.
The senator wrote on social media on last Friday: "Are you going to fight for your nation, or observe everything from your smartphone there on your sofa? I invite you to battle with us."
He said the demonstration would be so followers could "pray for his well-being and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our nation."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of the magistrate's ruling was the possibility of his transfer to embassies near the dwelling, considering that the inquiries revealed a history of planning to seek refuge through a embassy office", a announcement said.
The judicial paperwork underscores that the US embassy in the capital, the capital city, is positioned around 13km from his dwelling.
International Reactions
His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative United States President President Trump, prompting him to impose a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.
He is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in the capital and will have a imprisonment assessment on the next day.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on last Friday that the his legal team asked the Supreme Court to authorize him to complete his entire prison term under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.
They also asked that he be allowed to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he demanded ongoing care for respiratory ailments and other health problems.
Context of Sentencing
He was found guilty of leading a plot aimed at maintaining his control after he lost the 2022 election to his ideological adversary, Lula.
High Court judges said that he had knowledge of a plot which encompassed plans to murder Lula and his vice-presidential running mate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to arrest and execute the presiding judge - the top judicial official who has been presiding over the former president's case.
The scheme was thwarted because it failed to get the endorsement of the armed forces officials. Lula was inaugurated without problem on the first day of 2023.
But a seven days after, on 8 January, numerous his followers stormed and vandalised public facilities in the federal district, Brazil's capital.
The security forces stepped in and around 1,500 people were detained.
The judges found that the rioters had been provoked by the former president whose plan, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, reestablish control and bring him back to power.
At the time, his attorneys called the over 27-year sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also barred from running for public office until twenty-sixty - eight years later after the end of his sentence.
The one-time head of state called the trial a "witch hunt and said it was aimed at blocking him running in the 2026 national vote.
