The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities concluded he posed a concrete flight risk while under house arrest.
The former head of state was found guilty of planning a armed takeover in September and handed more than over two decades in incarceration, but he continued under house arrest pending legal challenges.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice the presiding justice said the action to imprison the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after "new facts" came to light.
This included attempting to break his tracking device and a call for a demonstration that could facilitate a potential flight.
Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns
In a filing authorising the arrest, Justice Moraes said information from the unit overseeing the former president's confinement suggested the ex-president's aim to disable the surveillance device to ensure success in his flight.
This, it said, would be assisted by the disorder caused by the protest called by his child.
His offspring, Flávio, who works as a senator, called for a assembly of his backers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday evening.
The senator wrote on social media on last Friday: "Are you going to fight for your homeland, or observe everything from your mobile device there on your sofa? I call on you to struggle with us."
He said the vigil would be so supporters could "pray for his physical condition and for the return of democracy in our land."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of Justice Moraes's determination was the possibility of the former president's move to diplomatic missions near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a history of organizing to seek refuge through a embassy office", a statement said.
The judicial paperwork highlights that the United States embassy in the national capital, Brazil's capital, is located around 13km from his dwelling.
Worldwide Consequences
His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow right-wing populist US President Trump, causing him to impose a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.
Bolsonaro is being kept in a national police facility in the capital and will have a detention review on Sunday.
Recent Judicial Appeals
It was only on Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Top Court to allow him to fulfill his full incarceration period under home confinement, with tracking devices.
They also petitioned that he be permitted to depart his residence for medical care, saying he needed frequent medical attention for respiratory ailments and other illnesses.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was found guilty of orchestrating a scheme aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the national vote to his political opponent, Lula.
High Court judges said that he was aware of a plan which included plans to assassinate the current president and his running partner, Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Alexandre de Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing the former president's case.
The plot was prevented because it didn't receive the backing of the military leaders. The current president was inaugurated without issue on January 1st, 2023.
But a seven days after, on the eighth of January, many his backers stormed and vandalised public facilities in the federal district, Brazil's capital.
The law enforcement intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.
The judges found that the demonstrators had been incited by him whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to intervene, bring back stability and bring him back to power.
At the time, the legal team called the 27 years and three months sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also barred from campaigning for office until 2060 - eight years after the completion of his term.
The former president called the trial a political persecution and said it was aimed at blocking him running in the 2026 national vote.
