The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities concluded he posed a concrete flight risk while under house arrest.
The one-time leader was convicted of orchestrating a government overthrow in September and sentenced more than over two decades in jail, but he continued under confinement pending legal challenges.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the action to imprison the 70-year-old politician was a preventative measure after "new facts" emerged.
This encompassed seeking to disable his ankle monitor and a call for a supporters' gathering that could facilitate a possible escape.
Court Filing Details Escape Concerns
In a paperwork permitting the arrest, the judge said intelligence from the unit overseeing the former president's confinement suggested the one-time head of state's plan to remove the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his escape.
This, it said, would be made easier by the disorder caused by the demonstration called by his offspring.
His son, Flávio, who works as a congressional representative, called for a assembly of his backers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on the weekend.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on online platforms on Friday: "Are you going to fight for your nation, or watch it all from your phone there on your settee? I urge you to battle with us."
He said the vigil would be so followers could "pray for his physical condition and for the restoration of democratic rule in our country."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of the magistrate's determination was the potential of the former president's transfer to diplomatic missions near the residence, considering that the investigations revealed a background of planning to seek refuge through a embassy office", a announcement said.
The judicial paperwork emphasizes that the US embassy in the federal district, Brasilia, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from Bolsonaro's home.
Global Responses
Bolsonaro's legal woes have provoked anger from fellow populist conservative United States President Donald Trump, causing him to enact a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.
The former president is being held in a Federal Police station in Brasilia and will have a detention review on Sunday.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on last Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Top Court to authorize him to complete his entire prison term under house arrest, with electronic monitoring.
They also requested that Bolsonaro be permitted to depart his residence for medical care, saying he needed frequent medical attention for respiratory ailments and other ailments.
Background on Conviction
The former president was convicted of heading a plot aimed at maintaining his control after he lost the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
High Court judges said that he knew of a plot which included plans to assassinate the current president and his vice-presidential running mate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to imprison and murder Alexandre de Moraes - the High Court judge who has been presiding over Bolsonaro's trial.
The scheme was prevented because it couldn't obtain the support of the army and air force commanders. Lula was sworn in without problem on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on the eighth of January, thousands of his followers invaded and destroyed official structures in the national capital, the capital city.
The law enforcement took action and around 1,500 people were detained.
The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been incited by him whose plan, they said, was for the Brazilian military to step in, bring back stability and bring him back to power.
At the time, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the 27 years and three months sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also barred from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.
The former president called the legal proceedings a targeted investigation" and said it was designed to prevent him competing in the 2026 national vote.
