Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities concluded he posed a concrete flight risk while under house arrest.
The ex-president was sentenced of orchestrating a government overthrow in the ninth month and given more than over two decades in incarceration, but he continued under confinement pending legal challenges.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the action to imprison the 70-year-old politician was a safety action after fresh information were revealed.
This involved attempting to break his electronic bracelet and a call for a demonstration that could enable a chance to flee".
Court Filing Details Flight Fears
In a paperwork permitting the detention, the magistrate said information from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the one-time head of state's "intention to break the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his escape.
This, it said, would be made easier by the chaos caused by the gathering called by his offspring.
His offspring, his son Flávio, who serves as a senator, called for a assembly of his supporters near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday evening.
His son wrote on digital networks on last Friday: "Are you going to fight for your country, or observe everything from your smartphone there on your sofa? I call on you to struggle with us."
He said the demonstration would be so supporters could "pray for his well-being and for the return of democracy in our land."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of the judge's decision was the potential of Bolsonaro's transfer to embassies near the dwelling, considering that the inquiries revealed a record of arranging to seek refuge through a diplomatic representation", a statement said.
The legal document underscores that the United States embassy in the national capital, Brasilia, is situated around 13km from Bolsonaro's home.
Worldwide Consequences
The former president's legal troubles have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative American leader Trump, causing him to enact a 50% tariff on goods coming from Brazil.
The former president is being held 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 Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Top Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with digital surveillance.
They also requested that he be authorized to exit his dwelling for medical care, saying he required frequent medical attention for pulmonary infections and other health problems.
Context of Sentencing
Bolsonaro was convicted of heading a conspiracy aimed at maintaining his control after he was defeated in the presidential race to his left-wing rival, President Lula.
High Court judges said that he was aware of a plot which involved plans to murder Lula and his VP candidate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to arrest and execute Justice Moraes - the High Court judge who has been presiding over the former president's case.
The scheme was prevented because it couldn't obtain the support of the armed forces officials. His successor was took office without issue on January 1st, 2023.
But a week later, on 8 January, thousands of his backers attacked and damaged public facilities in the capital, the capital city.
The police stepped in and around approximately 1,500 persons were detained.
The judges found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to step in, reestablish control and return him to office.
At the moment, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also prohibited from seeking elected position until 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 participating in the 2026 national vote.
