Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities determined he posed a definite escape threat while under home confinement.
The former head of state was sentenced of plotting a armed takeover in September and given more than over two decades in incarceration, but he was staying under home detention pending legal challenges.
High Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes said the action to imprison the 70-year-old politician was a precautionary step after fresh information emerged.
This encompassed attempting to break his tracking device and a summons to a public vigil that could enable a potential flight.
Judicial Records Show Escape Risks
In a document approving the detention, the judge said intelligence from the facility tracking Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the former leader'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 gathering called by his offspring.
His child, Flávio, who holds office as a senator, called for a meeting of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday evening.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on social media on Friday: Will you battle for your nation, or watch it all from your mobile device there on your sofa? I invite you to struggle with us."
He said the vigil would be so followers could seek divine intervention for his health and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our nation."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of Justice Moraes's decision was the potential of Bolsonaro's move to diplomatic missions near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a background of organizing to seek refuge through a diplomatic representation", a declaration said.
The court filing underscores that the United States embassy in the capital, Brazil's capital, is positioned around 8 miles from Bolsonaro's home.
Worldwide Consequences
The former president's legal troubles have drawn the ire of fellow right-wing populist US President Trump, prompting him to enact a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.
He is being detained in a national police facility in the capital and will undergo a custody hearing on Sunday.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the High Court to authorize him to serve his whole jail sentence under domestic detention, with tracking devices.
They also petitioned that he be authorized to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he demanded regular treatment for pulmonary infections and other ailments.
Context of Sentencing
He was determined responsible of leading a plot aimed at retaining his authority after he failed to win the 2022 election to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Top judicial officials said that he knew of a scheme which encompassed plans to kill the current president and his running partner, his vice-presidential candidate, and to detain and kill the presiding judge - the Supreme Court justice who has been presiding over his judicial proceedings.
The scheme was stopped because it failed to get the endorsement of the military leaders. Lula was sworn in without incident on January 1st, 2023.
But a week later, on the eighth of January, numerous his followers invaded and destroyed official structures in the federal district, the capital city.
The police took action and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.
The justices found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by the former president whose plan, they said, was for the country's army to step in, bring back stability and reinstate his authority.
At the moment, his attorneys called the over 27-year sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also prohibited from running for public office until twenty-sixty - eight years later after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The ex-leader called the court case a targeted investigation" and said it was intended to stop him running in the 2026 national vote.
