Jair Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities found he posed a definite escape threat while under domestic detention.
The ex-president was sentenced of plotting a government overthrow in September and sentenced more than 27 years in incarceration, but he remained under home detention pending court reviews.
High Court Judge the presiding justice said the action to imprison the septuagenarian politician was a precautionary step after "new facts" came to light.
This encompassed seeking to disable his ankle monitor and a call for a public vigil that could enable a chance to flee".
Legal Document Reveals Flight Fears
In a paperwork permitting the arrest, Justice Moraes said information from the centre monitoring his home detention suggested the former leader's "intention to break the surveillance device to secure accomplishment in his flight.
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the chaos caused by the demonstration called by his child.
His child, Flávio, who serves as a senator, called for a meeting of his backers near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday night.
His son wrote on online platforms on Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your nation, or observe everything from your phone there on your settee? I urge you to struggle with us."
He said the demonstration would be so supporters could "pray for his physical condition and for the restoration of democratic rule in our country."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of the magistrate's ruling was the possibility of his move to diplomatic missions near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a record of planning to seek refuge through a consular facility", a announcement said.
The judicial paperwork underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, the capital city, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.
Worldwide Consequences
His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow right-wing populist American leader Donald Trump, causing him to impose a 50% tariff on imports of Brazilian goods.
He is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in Brazil's capital city and will undergo a imprisonment assessment on Sunday.
Recent Judicial Appeals
It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to permit him to complete his entire prison term under home confinement, with electronic monitoring.
They also petitioned that the former president be allowed to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he needed ongoing care for respiratory ailments and other health problems.
Context of Sentencing
The former president was found guilty of orchestrating a scheme aimed at retaining his authority after he was defeated in the national vote to his ideological adversary, President Lula.
High Court judges said that he had knowledge of a scheme which involved plans to assassinate his opponent and his VP candidate, Alckmin, and to arrest and execute the presiding judge - the High Court judge who has been presiding over the former president's case.
The scheme was stopped because it failed to get the backing of the military leaders. His successor was took office without incident on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on 8 January, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters stormed and vandalised government buildings in the federal district, Brazil's capital.
The law enforcement intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.
The judges found that the rioters had been incited by the former president whose scheme, they said, was for the national armed forces to step in, restore order and bring him back to power.
At the moment, the legal team called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.
He was also prohibited from running for public office until the year 2060 - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.
The ex-leader called the trial a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him running in the 2026 presidential election.
