The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities determined he posed a concrete flight risk while under home confinement.
The one-time leader was found guilty of planning a government overthrow in the ninth month and handed more than over two decades in prison, but he remained under home detention pending court reviews.
High Court Judge Justice Moraes said the move to detain the septuagenarian politician was a precautionary step after recent developments emerged.
This involved attempting to break his ankle monitor and a summons to a demonstration that could facilitate a potential flight.
Court Filing Details Escape Concerns
In a document approving the custody, the judge said data from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the one-time head of state's aim to disable the surveillance device to secure accomplishment in his getaway".
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the disorder caused by the gathering called by his offspring.
His son, his son Flávio, who serves as a legislator, called for a assembly of his backers near the former president's residence to take place on the weekend.
The senator wrote on online platforms on last Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your nation, or see it all from your mobile device there on your couch? I urge you to struggle with us."
He said the gathering would be so supporters could seek divine intervention for his well-being and for the restoration of democratic rule in our land."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of the judge's decision was the chance of the former president's move to embassies near the dwelling, considering that the inquiries revealed a record of arranging to request asylum through a consular facility", a statement said.
The judicial paperwork underscores that the US embassy in the national capital, Brasilia, is located around 13km from the former president's residence.
International Reactions
Bolsonaro's legal woes have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative American leader Donald Trump, leading him to enact a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.
Bolsonaro is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in Brazil's capital city and will undergo a detention review on the following day.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Top Court to allow him to complete his entire prison term under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.
They also petitioned that the former president be allowed to leave his home for healthcare, saying he required ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other health problems.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was determined responsible of orchestrating a conspiracy aimed at maintaining his control after he failed to win the 2022 election to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a scheme which included plans to murder Lula and his running partner, Geraldo Alckmin, and to arrest and execute Justice Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing his judicial proceedings.
The plot was thwarted because it failed to get the endorsement of the armed forces officials. Lula was inaugurated without problem on 1 January 2023.
But a week later, on 8 January, numerous his followers stormed and vandalised public facilities in the capital, Brasília.
The law enforcement took action and around 1,500 people were arrested.
The justices found that the protesters had been incited by him whose plan, they said, was for the country's army to intervene, bring back stability and reinstate his authority.
At the period, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also prohibited from running for public office until the year 2060 - eight years later after the end of his sentence.
The one-time head of state called the court case a political persecution and said it was intended to stop him competing in the 2026 national vote.
