The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities found he posed a concrete flight risk while under home confinement.
The ex-president was sentenced of plotting a armed takeover in the ninth month and given more than 27 years in incarceration, but he remained under confinement pending legal challenges.
High Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes said the action to imprison the elderly politician was a safety action after fresh information came to light.
This included attempting to break his electronic bracelet and a call for a demonstration that could "allow for a chance to flee".
Court Filing Details Escape Concerns
In a document approving the arrest, the judge said data from the unit overseeing his home detention suggested the former leader's plan to remove the tracking monitor to guarantee victory in his flight.
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the chaos caused by the protest called by his offspring.
His son, Flávio, who serves as a senator, called for a meeting of his followers near his father's house to take place on Saturday night.
His son wrote on digital networks on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your country, or observe everything from your phone there on your couch? I call on you to battle with us."
He said the gathering would be so supporters could "pray for his well-being and for the return of democracy in our land."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of the magistrate's decision was the possibility of the former president's move to embassies near the dwelling, considering that the investigations revealed a history of planning to ask for protection through a diplomatic representation", a announcement said.
The judicial paperwork emphasizes that the United States embassy in the capital, Brazil's capital, is situated around 8 miles from the former president's residence.
Global Responses
The former president's legal troubles have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative American leader Trump, causing him to implement a half-rate duty on Brazilian product imports.
The former president is being held in a national police facility in Brazil's capital city and will undergo 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 permit him to complete his entire prison term under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.
They also requested that he be allowed to depart his residence for medical treatment, saying he needed frequent medical attention for pulmonary infections and other health problems.
Background on Conviction
Bolsonaro 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.
Supreme Court justices said that he had knowledge of a scheme which involved plans to assassinate his opponent and his vice-presidential running mate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to detain and kill Justice Moraes - the top judicial official who has been overseeing Bolsonaro's trial.
The scheme was stopped because it failed to get the endorsement of the armed forces officials. The current president was inaugurated without issue on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on 8 January, numerous his followers attacked and damaged government buildings in the federal district, Brasília.
The security forces intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were taken into custody.
The magistrates found that the protesters had been provoked by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, restore order and return him to office.
At the period, the legal team called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also prohibited from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the completion of his term.
The ex-leader called the trial a political persecution and said it was intended to stop him participating in the 2026 presidential election.
