The former Brazilian leader has been taken into custody after authorities found he posed a concrete flight risk while under domestic detention.
The ex-president was sentenced of planning a armed takeover in last fall and handed more than over two decades in incarceration, but he continued under house arrest pending legal challenges.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the move to detain the 70-year-old politician was a safety action after fresh information emerged.
This encompassed trying to remove his ankle monitor and a summons to a demonstration that could facilitate a chance to flee".
Legal Document Reveals Escape Risks
In a paperwork permitting the detention, the judge said data from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the ex-president's plan to remove the tracking monitor to ensure success in his getaway".
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the confusion caused by the demonstration called by his offspring.
His child, Flávio, who serves as a congressional representative, called for a meeting of his followers near his father's house to take place on Saturday evening.
The senator wrote on online platforms on Friday: Will you battle for your country, or observe everything from your smartphone there on your settee? I invite you to battle with us."
He said the vigil would be so followers could "pray for his physical condition and for the restoration of democratic rule in our land."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of the judge's decision was the chance of his transfer to foreign missions near the dwelling, considering that the inquiries revealed a history of planning to seek refuge through a consular facility", a declaration said.
The judicial paperwork emphasizes that the US embassy in the national capital, Brazil's capital, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from Bolsonaro's home.
Global Responses
His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow right-wing populist US President Trump, leading him to impose a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.
The former president is being held in a national police facility in Brasilia and will have a custody hearing on Sunday.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the High Court to allow him to serve his whole jail sentence under home confinement, with digital surveillance.
They also asked that he be permitted to depart his residence for healthcare, saying he needed frequent medical attention for respiratory ailments and other illnesses.
Background on Conviction
Bolsonaro was determined responsible of leading a scheme aimed at retaining his authority after he failed to win the presidential race to his ideological adversary, President Lula.
High Court judges said that he knew of a plot which encompassed plans to assassinate his opponent and his VP candidate, Alckmin, and to arrest and execute Justice Moraes - the top judicial official who has been presiding over the former president's case.
The scheme was prevented because it didn't receive the support of the military leaders. His successor was sworn in without incident on the first day of 2023.
But a seven days after, on the eighth of January, thousands of his followers invaded and destroyed public facilities in the capital, Brazil's capital.
The police took action and around approximately 1,500 persons were arrested.
The judges found that the protesters had been encouraged by Bolsonaro whose plan, they said, was for the Brazilian military to take action, restore order and bring him back to power.
At the time, the legal team called the over 27-year sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also barred from seeking elected position until 2060 - a decade minus two years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The ex-leader called the trial a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him competing in the 2026 national vote.
