The former Brazilian leader has been taken into custody after authorities determined he posed a definite escape threat while under home confinement.
The former head of state was sentenced of orchestrating a government overthrow in the ninth month and given more than 27 years in jail, but he continued under house arrest pending appeals.
High Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes said the decision to arrest the elderly politician was a preventative measure after recent developments came to light.
This included seeking to disable his ankle monitor and a call for a demonstration that could enable a potential flight.
Judicial Records Show Flight Fears
In a document approving the detention, the judge said data from the facility tracking Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the ex-president's aim to disable the surveillance device to secure accomplishment in his escape.
This, it said, would be assisted by the disorder caused by the demonstration called by his offspring.
His child, Flávio Bolsonaro, who serves as a legislator, called for a gathering of his supporters near his father's house to take place on Saturday night.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on online platforms on last Friday: "Are you going to fight for your homeland, or observe everything from your smartphone there on your settee? I call on you to struggle with us."
He said the vigil would be so supporters could offer prayers for his well-being and for the return of democracy in our country."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of the magistrate's ruling was the possibility of his transfer to foreign missions near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a history of planning to ask for protection through a diplomatic representation", a statement said.
The judicial paperwork emphasizes that the United States embassy in the federal district, Brazil's capital, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.
Global Responses
Bolsonaro's legal woes have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative American leader Trump, causing him to implement a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.
He is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in Brazil's capital city and will experience a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Recent Judicial Appeals
It was only on Friday that the his legal team asked the High Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.
They also asked that he be allowed to depart his residence for medical care, saying he needed regular treatment for pulmonary infections and other ailments.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was found guilty of orchestrating a scheme aimed at retaining his authority after he failed to win the national vote to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
High Court judges said that he was aware of a plan which included plans to murder Lula and his VP candidate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to arrest and execute the presiding judge - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing his judicial proceedings.
The conspiracy was stopped because it couldn't obtain the backing of the military leaders. His successor was inaugurated without problem on 1 January 2023.
But a seven days after, on 8 January, many Bolsonaro supporters stormed and vandalised public facilities in the capital, Brazil's capital.
The law enforcement stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.
The justices found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to take action, restore order and bring him back to power.
At the moment, the legal team called the 27 years and three months sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also banned from seeking elected position until the year 2060 - eight years later after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The former president called the legal proceedings a "witch hunt and said it was aimed at blocking him competing in the 2026 presidential election.
