The former Brazilian leader has been detained after authorities concluded he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under house arrest.
The former head of state was sentenced of planning a military coup in last fall and given more than 27 years in prison, but he was staying under house arrest pending legal challenges.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Justice Moraes said the action to imprison the elderly politician was a preventative measure after recent developments were revealed.
This encompassed seeking to disable his electronic bracelet and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could enable a possible escape.
Legal Document Reveals Escape Concerns
In a paperwork permitting the custody, Justice Moraes said information from the unit overseeing his home detention suggested the ex-president's plan to remove the surveillance device to ensure success in his escape.
This, it said, would be assisted by the disorder caused by the protest called by his child.
His son, Flávio, who holds office as a congressional representative, called for a meeting of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday evening.
His son wrote on digital networks on Friday: "Are you going to fight for your country, or see it all from your mobile device there on your couch? I urge you to struggle with us."
He said the vigil would be so supporters could seek divine intervention for his health and for the restoration of democratic rule in our nation."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of the magistrate's ruling was the chance of Bolsonaro's transfer to embassies near the home, considering that the investigations revealed a background of planning to ask for protection through a embassy office", a declaration said.
The legal document highlights that the United States embassy in the capital, Brazil's capital, is located around 8 miles from the former president's residence.
Worldwide Consequences
His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow right-wing populist American leader Trump, causing him to impose a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.
Bolsonaro is being held in a federal law enforcement building in the capital and will experience a custody hearing on the next day.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on last Friday that the his legal team asked the Top Court to authorize him to serve his whole jail sentence under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.
They also requested that Bolsonaro be permitted to leave his home for healthcare, saying he needed regular treatment for lung conditions and other health problems.
Context of Sentencing
The former president was found guilty of leading a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he was defeated in the presidential race to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a plot which involved plans to kill his opponent and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Alexandre de Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been presiding over Bolsonaro's trial.
The plot was thwarted because it failed to get the endorsement of the army and air force commanders. The current president was sworn in without problem on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on January 8th, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters attacked and damaged official structures in the capital, Brasília.
The security forces took action and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.
The judges found that the rioters had been provoked by him whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to take action, bring back stability and bring him back to power.
At the moment, his attorneys called the over 27-year sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also barred from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.
The ex-leader called the court case a targeted investigation" and said it was intended to stop him running in the 2026 presidential election.
