The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities found he posed a concrete flight risk while under domestic detention.
The ex-president was convicted of orchestrating a armed takeover in last fall and given more than over two decades in incarceration, but he remained under confinement pending court reviews.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the move to detain the septuagenarian politician was a preventative measure after recent developments emerged.
This included seeking to disable his ankle monitor and a invitation to a public vigil that could enable a possible escape.
Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns
In a filing authorising the detention, Justice Moraes said information from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the one-time head of state's plan to remove the surveillance device to guarantee victory in his escape.
This, it said, would be assisted by the confusion caused by the protest called by his offspring.
His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, 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 social media on Friday: "Are you going to fight for your nation, or see it all from your mobile device there on your settee? I call on you to fight with us."
He said the gathering would be so followers could "pray for his physical condition and for the restoration of democratic rule in our nation."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of Justice Moraes's determination was the chance of his "relocation to foreign missions near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a history of arranging to seek refuge through a consular facility", a announcement said.
The legal document underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the federal district, Brasilia, is situated around 8 miles from the former president's residence.
Global Responses
His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow populist conservative American leader Trump, leading him to impose a 50% tariff 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 custody hearing on Sunday.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under house arrest, with digital surveillance.
They also requested that Bolsonaro be permitted to leave his home for medical treatment, saying he required regular treatment for lung conditions and other ailments.
Context of Sentencing
The former president was found guilty of orchestrating a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the 2022 election to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
High Court judges said that he knew of a plot which encompassed plans to kill Lula and his VP candidate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Justice Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing the former president's case.
The scheme was prevented because it failed to get the endorsement of the military leaders. Lula was took office without issue on 1 January 2023.
But a week later, on January 8th, numerous his followers stormed and vandalised government buildings in the federal district, Brazil's capital.
The security forces took action and around fifteen hundred individuals were taken into custody.
The judges found that the protesters had been incited by Bolsonaro whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to intervene, restore order and reinstate his authority.
At the period, the legal team called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also barred from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - eight years after the completion of his term.
The one-time head of state called the legal proceedings a "witch hunt and said it was aimed at blocking him participating in the 2026 presidential election.
