The former Brazilian leader has been taken into custody after authorities found he posed a definite escape threat while under home confinement.
The former head of state was sentenced of plotting a government overthrow in the ninth month and handed more than 27 years in incarceration, but he was staying under house arrest pending court reviews.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the decision to arrest the 70-year-old politician was a precautionary step after recent developments were revealed.
This encompassed trying to remove his ankle monitor and a invitation to a demonstration that could "allow for a possible escape.
Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns
In a document approving the arrest, Justice Moraes said information from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the former leader's aim to disable the surveillance device to secure accomplishment in his getaway".
This, it said, would be assisted by the disorder caused by the demonstration called by his child.
His child, his son Flávio, who holds office as a congressional representative, called for a meeting of his backers near his father's house to take place on Saturday night.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on digital networks on Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your country, or watch it all from your smartphone there on your settee? I invite you to fight with us."
He said the vigil would be so backers could seek divine intervention for his well-being and for the return of democracy in our nation."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of Justice Moraes's decision was the chance of his move to embassies near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a background of arranging to request asylum through a consular facility", a declaration said.
The court filing highlights that the United States embassy in the federal district, the capital city, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.
International Reactions
His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow populist conservative US President Trump, prompting him to implement a 50% tariff on imports of Brazilian goods.
Bolsonaro is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in the capital and will have a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Top Court to permit him to serve his whole jail sentence under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.
They also requested that the former president be authorized to exit his dwelling for medical treatment, saying he demanded frequent medical attention for pulmonary infections and other ailments.
Context of Sentencing
The former president was found guilty 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.
High Court judges said that he had knowledge of a scheme which involved plans to assassinate the current president and his VP candidate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Justice Moraes - the High Court judge who has been overseeing his judicial proceedings.
The conspiracy was prevented because it failed to get the backing of the military leaders. The current president was took office without problem on 1 January 2023.
But a seven days after, on 8 January, many his backers attacked and damaged government buildings in the federal district, Brazil's capital.
The security forces stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.
The justices found that the protesters had been encouraged by the former president whose plan, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, bring back stability and bring him back to power.
At the time, the legal team called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.
He was also prohibited from running for public office until 2060 - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.
The former president called the trial a targeted investigation" and said it was aimed at blocking him participating in the next presidential race.
