Jair Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities concluded he posed a concrete flight risk while under house arrest.
The one-time leader was sentenced of planning a armed takeover in the ninth month and sentenced more than over two decades in jail, but he remained under confinement pending court reviews.
High Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes said the action to imprison the 70-year-old politician was a precautionary step after fresh information emerged.
This encompassed trying to remove his tracking device and a summons to a public vigil that could enable a potential flight.
Court Filing Details Escape Concerns
In a paperwork permitting the custody, the magistrate said data from the centre monitoring his home detention suggested the former leader's plan to remove the tracking monitor to guarantee victory in his getaway".
This, it said, would be assisted by the disorder caused by the protest called by his child.
His child, Flávio Bolsonaro, who holds office as a senator, called for a gathering of his followers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday evening.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on online platforms on last Friday: Will you battle for your nation, or observe everything from your phone there on your sofa? I invite you to battle with us."
He said the gathering would be so backers could seek divine intervention for his health and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our country."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of the judge's determination was the chance of the former president's transfer to diplomatic missions near the dwelling, considering that the investigations revealed a background of organizing to seek refuge through a diplomatic representation", a declaration said.
The legal document emphasizes that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, Brazil's capital, is located around 13km from Bolsonaro's home.
Global Responses
His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow populist conservative US President Donald Trump, causing him to impose a 50% tariff on imports of Brazilian goods.
He is being held in a federal law enforcement building in Brasilia and will have a detention review on the next day.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on Friday that the his legal team asked the Supreme Court to authorize him to fulfill his full incarceration period under house arrest, with tracking devices.
They also petitioned that the former president be authorized to leave his home for medical care, saying he needed regular treatment for pulmonary infections and other ailments.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was convicted of heading a scheme aimed at keeping him in power after he failed to win the national vote to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Supreme Court justices said that he knew of a plan which included plans to assassinate Lula and his vice-presidential running mate, Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Alexandre de Moraes - the top judicial official who has been overseeing Bolsonaro's trial.
The plot was stopped because it didn't receive the endorsement of the armed forces officials. The current president was sworn in without problem on January 1st, 2023.
But a week later, on January 8th, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters attacked and damaged official structures in the national capital, the capital city.
The law enforcement intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were taken into custody.
The justices found that the rioters had been incited by him whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, reestablish control and reinstate his authority.
At the period, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.
He was also barred from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - eight years later after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The ex-leader called the trial a political persecution and said it was intended to stop him participating in the 2026 national vote.
