The former Brazilian leader has been detained after authorities concluded he posed a definite escape threat while under domestic detention.
The ex-president was convicted of orchestrating a government overthrow in the ninth month and handed more than a 27-year term in prison, but he was staying under home detention pending appeals.
Top Judicial Official Justice Moraes said the action to imprison the 70-year-old politician was a safety action after fresh information were revealed.
This involved trying to remove his tracking device and a call for a public vigil that could enable a chance to flee".
Judicial Records Show Flight Fears
In a document approving the detention, the magistrate said intelligence from the centre monitoring the former president's confinement suggested the ex-president's plan to remove the tracking monitor to ensure success in his escape.
This, it said, would be assisted by the disorder caused by the demonstration called by his child.
His son, his son Flávio, who works as a senator, called for a meeting of his followers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on the weekend.
His son wrote on online platforms on the previous day: "Are you going to fight for your nation, or watch it all from your phone there on your sofa? I invite you to battle with us."
He said the gathering would be so followers could seek divine intervention for his physical condition and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our country."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of the magistrate's determination was the chance of the former president's "relocation to foreign missions near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a history of planning to request asylum through a consular facility", a announcement said.
The court filing highlights that the US embassy in the national capital, the capital city, is located around 8 miles from his dwelling.
Worldwide Consequences
The former president's legal troubles have generated frustration from fellow right-wing populist American leader Trump, causing him to impose a half-rate duty on Brazilian product imports.
The former president is being kept in a Federal Police station in Brasilia and will have a custody hearing on the next day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on Friday that the his legal team asked the High Court to authorize him to serve his whole jail sentence under house arrest, with tracking devices.
They also petitioned that the former president be authorized to leave his home for medical care, saying he needed ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other ailments.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was determined responsible of orchestrating a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the national vote to his political opponent, Lula.
High Court judges said that he knew of a plot which encompassed plans to murder his opponent and his vice-presidential running mate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to imprison and murder Justice Moraes - the top judicial official who has been presiding over the former president's case.
The scheme was stopped because it didn't receive the backing of the armed forces officials. His successor was sworn in without problem on January 1st, 2023.
But a seven days after, on January 8th, thousands of his backers invaded and destroyed government buildings in the federal district, Brazil's capital.
The security forces took action and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.
The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been provoked by him whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to take action, restore order and return him to office.
At the moment, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also banned from running for public office until twenty-sixty - eight years later after the end of his sentence.
The ex-leader called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was aimed at blocking him running in the 2026 presidential election.
