The former Brazilian leader has been taken into custody after authorities determined he posed a definite escape threat while under house arrest.
The former head of state was sentenced of orchestrating a armed takeover in September and sentenced more than 27 years in incarceration, but he remained under home detention pending appeals.
High Court Judge the presiding justice said the action to imprison the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after recent developments emerged.
This encompassed attempting to break his tracking device and a summons to a supporters' gathering that could enable a chance to flee".
Court Filing Details Escape Risks
In a document approving the detention, the magistrate said intelligence from the unit overseeing Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the ex-president's "intention to break the tracking monitor to ensure success in his escape.
This, it said, would be assisted by the confusion caused by the protest called by his offspring.
His son, his son Flávio, who works as a senator, called for a meeting of his backers near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday evening.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on online platforms on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your nation, or observe everything from your mobile device there on your couch? I invite you to struggle with us."
He said the gathering would be so backers could seek divine intervention for his physical condition and for the return of democracy in our land."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of Justice Moraes's ruling was the chance of Bolsonaro's move to embassies near the home, considering that the probes revealed a history of planning to request asylum through a consular facility", a declaration said.
The court filing highlights that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, Brazil's capital, is positioned around 8 miles from Bolsonaro's home.
International Reactions
His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow conservative nationalist United States President Donald Trump, prompting him to impose a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.
The former president is being detained in a Federal Police station in the capital and will have a custody hearing on the following day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on the previous day that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Top Court to authorize him to serve his whole jail sentence under house arrest, with digital surveillance.
They also requested that he be authorized to leave his home for medical treatment, saying he required frequent medical attention for pulmonary infections and other illnesses.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was determined responsible of orchestrating a plot aimed at retaining his authority after he failed to win the presidential race to his ideological adversary, President Lula.
Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a plot which encompassed plans to assassinate the current president and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill Justice Moraes - the top judicial official who has been managing the former president's case.
The plot was thwarted because it couldn't obtain the support of the armed forces officials. Lula was sworn in without incident on the first day of 2023.
But a week later, on 8 January, many his backers attacked and damaged official structures in the federal district, the capital city.
The security forces took action and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.
The justices found that the demonstrators had been incited by Bolsonaro whose strategy, they said, was for the country's army to intervene, reestablish control and reinstate his authority.
At the time, the legal team called the 27 years and three months sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also banned from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The one-time head of state called the court case a targeted investigation" and said it was designed to prevent him participating in the 2026 national vote.
