Jair Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities found he posed a definite escape threat while under domestic detention.
The ex-president was sentenced of planning a government overthrow in the ninth month and sentenced more than a 27-year term in prison, but he was staying under house arrest pending legal challenges.
Top Judicial Official Justice Moraes said the decision to arrest the 70-year-old politician was a safety action after "new facts" emerged.
This included trying to remove his tracking device and a summons to a public vigil that could enable a possible escape.
Judicial Records Show Flight Fears
In a paperwork permitting the custody, the judge said data from the centre monitoring the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's "intention to break the electronic ankle bracelet to guarantee victory in his flight.
This, it said, would be assisted by the confusion caused by the gathering called by his child.
His offspring, Flávio, who works as a congressional representative, called for a assembly of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday night.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on digital networks on last Friday: Will you battle for your nation, or see it all from your phone there on your sofa? I invite you to struggle with us."
He said the gathering would be so followers could "pray for his well-being and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our land."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of the judge's decision was the chance of the former president's transfer to diplomatic missions near the residence, considering that the investigations revealed a background of organizing to ask for protection through a diplomatic representation", a statement said.
The judicial paperwork underscores that the United States embassy in the capital, Brazil's capital, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.
International Reactions
The former president's legal troubles have generated frustration from fellow conservative nationalist United States President President Trump, prompting him to enact a half-rate duty on goods coming from Brazil.
Bolsonaro is being kept in a national police facility in Brazil's capital city and will have a detention review on the next day.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the High Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under home confinement, with electronic monitoring.
They also petitioned that the former president be allowed to leave his home for healthcare, saying he demanded regular treatment for lung conditions and other ailments.
Context of Sentencing
Bolsonaro was determined responsible of orchestrating a scheme aimed at maintaining his control after he was defeated in the 2022 election to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Top judicial officials said that he had knowledge of a plan which encompassed plans to murder his opponent and his VP candidate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill the presiding judge - the Supreme Court justice who has been presiding over his judicial proceedings.
The plot was stopped because it couldn't obtain the backing of the armed forces officials. Lula was took office without problem on January 1st, 2023.
But a seven days after, on the eighth of January, numerous his backers stormed and vandalised official structures in the capital, the capital city.
The security forces stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.
The judges found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by him whose plan, they said, was for the Brazilian military to step in, reestablish control and return him to office.
At the moment, the legal team called the 27 years and three months sentence extremely harsh.
He was also banned from running for public office until 2060 - a decade minus two years after the completion of his term.
The one-time head of state called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him participating in the 2026 national vote.
