Jair Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities determined he posed a definite escape threat while under domestic detention.
The former head of state was convicted of orchestrating a government overthrow in the ninth month and sentenced more than 27 years in incarceration, but he continued under home detention pending court reviews.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice the presiding justice said the action to imprison the elderly politician was a precautionary step after "new facts" emerged.
This involved trying to remove his electronic bracelet and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could facilitate a chance to flee".
Legal Document Reveals Escape Concerns
In a paperwork permitting the detention, the magistrate said information from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the one-time head of state's aim to disable the tracking monitor to guarantee victory in his flight.
This, it said, would be made easier by the disorder caused by the gathering called by his son.
His child, Flávio, who holds office as a legislator, called for a gathering of his backers near his father's house to take place on Saturday night.
The senator wrote on social media on last Friday: "Are you going to fight for your nation, or see it all from your phone there on your couch? I call on you to fight with us."
He said the vigil would be so supporters could "pray for his well-being and for the restoration of democratic rule in our nation."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of Justice Moraes's ruling was the potential of his "relocation to diplomatic missions near the residence, considering that the investigations revealed a record of organizing to ask for protection through a consular facility", a declaration said.
The court filing highlights that the American diplomatic mission in the national capital, Brazil's capital, is situated around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.
Global Responses
His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow conservative nationalist US President Trump, causing him to impose a half-rate duty on goods coming from Brazil.
Bolsonaro is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in Brasilia and will experience a detention review on the next day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on last Friday that the his legal team asked the Supreme Court to permit him to complete his entire prison term under domestic detention, with digital surveillance.
They also asked that the former president be allowed to depart his residence for medical care, saying he demanded frequent medical attention for pulmonary infections and other illnesses.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was determined responsible of leading a scheme aimed at keeping him in power after he failed to win the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
High Court judges said that he had knowledge of a plot which encompassed plans to murder his opponent and his VP candidate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to imprison and murder the presiding judge - the High Court judge who has been overseeing his judicial proceedings.
The scheme was thwarted because it failed to get the backing of the military leaders. The current president was inaugurated without problem on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on January 8th, numerous his followers attacked and damaged public facilities in the national capital, Brazil's capital.
The police took action and around 1,500 people were detained.
The judges found that the protesters had been incited by him whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to take action, bring back stability and reinstate his authority.
At the period, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also prohibited from seeking elected position until the year 2060 - a decade minus two years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The one-time head of state called the legal proceedings a "witch hunt and said it was aimed at blocking him participating in the 2026 national vote.
