The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities found he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under domestic detention.
The ex-president was convicted of planning a armed takeover in last fall and given more than over two decades in incarceration, but he was staying under home detention pending court reviews.
Top Judicial Official Alexandre de Moraes said the decision to arrest the 70-year-old politician was a precautionary step after recent developments came to light.
This encompassed trying to remove his tracking device and a invitation to a public vigil that could enable a chance to flee".
Judicial Records Show Escape Risks
In a filing authorising the detention, the judge said data from the unit overseeing his home detention suggested the ex-president's "intention to break the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his escape.
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the confusion caused by the protest called by his son.
His son, his son Flávio, who works as a legislator, called for a assembly of his backers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday night.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on digital networks on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your nation, or watch it all from your smartphone there on your settee? I invite you to struggle with us."
He said the vigil would be so supporters could offer prayers for his well-being and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our nation."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of Justice Moraes's decision was the possibility of Bolsonaro's "relocation to foreign missions near the home, considering that the investigations revealed a record of arranging to request asylum through a consular facility", a declaration said.
The legal document highlights that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, Brazil's capital, is situated around 13km from Bolsonaro's home.
Global Responses
The former president's legal troubles have generated frustration from fellow conservative nationalist American leader President Trump, causing him to impose a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.
The former president is being kept in a Federal Police station in Brazil's capital city and will have a imprisonment assessment on the next day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on the previous day that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Top Court to allow him to serve his whole jail sentence under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.
They also asked that Bolsonaro be permitted to depart his residence for medical care, saying he needed ongoing care for respiratory ailments and other illnesses.
Context of Sentencing
He was found guilty of orchestrating a scheme aimed at retaining his authority after he failed to win the national vote to his left-wing rival, President Lula.
Top judicial officials said that he had knowledge of a plan which encompassed plans to assassinate his opponent and his VP candidate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to arrest and execute the presiding judge - the Supreme Court justice who has been overseeing the former president's case.
The scheme was prevented because it failed to get the support of the armed forces officials. His successor was inaugurated without issue on 1 January 2023.
But a following week, on the eighth of January, thousands of his backers stormed and vandalised official structures in the national capital, Brazil's capital.
The police intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.
The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been provoked by Bolsonaro whose scheme, they said, was for the Brazilian military to intervene, restore order and return him to office.
At the moment, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.
He was also prohibited from running for public office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.
The former president called the legal proceedings a political persecution and said it was designed to prevent him participating in the 2026 presidential election.
