Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities concluded he posed a definite escape threat while under house arrest.
The former head of state was convicted of planning a government overthrow in September and given more than over two decades in prison, but he continued under confinement pending appeals.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the decision to arrest the elderly politician was a precautionary step after recent developments emerged.
This involved attempting to break his tracking device and a invitation to a public vigil that could facilitate a possible escape.
Legal Document Reveals Flight Fears
In a filing authorising the detention, the magistrate said data from the centre monitoring the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's "intention to break the tracking monitor to guarantee victory in his getaway".
This, it said, would be assisted by the disorder caused by the protest called by his child.
His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, who serves as a legislator, called for a assembly of his supporters near his father's house to take place on the weekend.
The senator wrote on digital networks on the previous day: "Are you going to fight for your nation, or watch it all from your phone there on your couch? I urge you to struggle with us."
He said the gathering would be so backers could offer prayers for his health and for the restoration of democratic rule in our land."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of Justice Moraes's ruling was the possibility of Bolsonaro's move to diplomatic missions near the home, considering that the probes revealed a record of arranging to seek refuge through a embassy office", a announcement said.
The judicial paperwork underscores that the US embassy in the national capital, Brasilia, is located around 8 miles from his dwelling.
Global Responses
Bolsonaro's legal woes have drawn the ire of fellow populist conservative United States President President Trump, prompting him to enact a 50% tariff on Brazilian product imports.
The former president is being detained in a Federal Police station in Brasilia and will undergo a detention review on the next day.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on Friday that the his legal team asked the Top Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.
They also petitioned that Bolsonaro be allowed to exit his dwelling for medical care, saying he demanded regular treatment for respiratory ailments and other health problems.
Context of Sentencing
He was found guilty of leading a conspiracy aimed at maintaining his control after he failed to win the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Lula.
Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a scheme which involved plans to murder Lula and his running partner, Geraldo Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Alexandre de Moraes - the High Court judge who has been overseeing the former president's case.
The scheme was stopped because it failed to get the endorsement of the military leaders. The current president was inaugurated without issue on the first day of 2023.
But a seven days after, on the eighth of January, thousands of his backers attacked and damaged public facilities in the national capital, Brazil's capital.
The security forces took action and around approximately 1,500 persons were arrested.
The justices found that the rioters had been provoked by him whose scheme, they said, was for the Brazilian military to intervene, bring back stability and reinstate his authority.
At the period, the legal team called the 27 years and three months sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also barred from running for public office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the completion of his term.
The ex-leader called the legal proceedings a political persecution and said it was aimed at blocking him running in the 2026 presidential election.
