Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities found he posed a definite escape threat while under home confinement.
The ex-president was sentenced of orchestrating a government overthrow in last fall and sentenced more than over two decades in incarceration, but he remained under home detention pending court reviews.
High Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes said the move to detain the elderly politician was a precautionary step after "new facts" came to light.
This encompassed trying to remove his electronic bracelet and a call for a supporters' gathering that could enable a possible escape.
Court Filing Details Escape Risks
In a filing authorising the custody, the magistrate said data from the centre monitoring his home detention suggested the ex-president's plan to remove the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his getaway".
This, it said, would be made easier by the disorder caused by the protest called by his child.
His child, his son Flávio, who holds office as a senator, called for a assembly of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday evening.
The senator wrote on social media on last Friday: Will you battle for your country, or see it all from your mobile device there on your sofa? I call on you to battle with us."
He said the gathering would be so supporters could offer prayers for his well-being and for the restoration of democratic rule in our nation."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of the judge's determination was the possibility of Bolsonaro's move to foreign missions near the home, considering that the probes revealed a background of arranging to request asylum through a consular facility", a announcement said.
The judicial paperwork underscores that the US embassy in the national capital, Brazil's capital, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.
Worldwide Consequences
Bolsonaro's legal woes have provoked anger from fellow conservative nationalist US President Trump, prompting him to enact a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.
The former president is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in Brazil's capital city and will have a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on the previous day that the his legal team asked the Top Court to permit him to serve his whole jail sentence under domestic detention, with digital surveillance.
They also requested that Bolsonaro be authorized to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he demanded ongoing care for respiratory ailments and other health problems.
Background on Conviction
He was found guilty of leading a conspiracy aimed at maintaining his control after he failed to win the 2022 election to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Supreme Court justices said that he knew of a plot which encompassed plans to assassinate Lula and his running partner, his vice-presidential candidate, and to arrest and execute Justice Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been overseeing Bolsonaro's trial.
The plot was prevented because it couldn't obtain the endorsement of the military leaders. The current president was inaugurated without incident on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on 8 January, many his followers attacked and damaged official structures in the federal district, Brasília.
The police intervened and around 1,500 people were taken into custody.
The magistrates found that the protesters had been incited by him whose plan, they said, was for the country's army to intervene, reestablish control and bring him back to power.
At the moment, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.
He was also prohibited from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The one-time head of state called the trial a targeted investigation" and said it was aimed at blocking him competing in the next presidential race.
