Bolsonaro has been arrested 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 sentenced more than a 27-year term in jail, but he remained under home detention pending appeals.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the action to imprison the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after "new facts" emerged.
This encompassed trying to remove his electronic bracelet and a invitation to a public vigil that could facilitate a chance to flee".
Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns
In a filing authorising the detention, the judge said information from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the ex-president's plan to remove the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his flight.
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the chaos caused by the protest called by his child.
His offspring, Flávio, who serves as a congressional representative, called for a assembly of his supporters near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday night.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on social media on Friday: Will you battle for your country, or see it all from your phone there on your couch? I call on you to struggle with us."
He said the gathering would be so backers could "pray for his well-being and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our country."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of the magistrate's decision was the chance of Bolsonaro's "relocation to foreign missions near the residence, considering that the investigations revealed a background of organizing to request asylum through a consular facility", a statement said.
The court filing underscores that the United States embassy in the capital, the capital city, is situated around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.
Global Responses
His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow conservative nationalist United States President Donald Trump, causing him to enact a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.
Bolsonaro is being detained in a federal law enforcement building in the capital and will undergo a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to permit him to serve his whole jail sentence under domestic detention, with digital surveillance.
They also asked that he be authorized to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he required ongoing care for respiratory ailments and other illnesses.
Context of Sentencing
He was determined responsible of heading a plot aimed at maintaining his control after he failed to win the 2022 election to his political opponent, Lula.
Supreme Court justices said that he knew of a plot which included plans to kill the current president and his VP candidate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Alexandre de Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing the former president's case.
The scheme was thwarted because it didn't receive the support of the military leaders. The current president was took office without incident on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on January 8th, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters stormed and vandalised public facilities in the federal district, Brazil's capital.
The law enforcement took action and around approximately 1,500 persons were arrested.
The justices found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by him whose plan, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, restore order and return him to office.
At the moment, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.
He was also banned from seeking elected position until 2060 - eight years later after the completion of his term.
The one-time head of state called the court case a targeted investigation" and said it was designed to prevent him participating in the 2026 presidential election.
