The former Brazilian leader has been taken into custody after authorities concluded he posed a definite escape threat while under domestic detention.
The one-time leader was sentenced of plotting a government overthrow in the ninth month and handed more than over two decades in prison, but he was staying under confinement pending appeals.
High Court Judge the presiding justice said the action to imprison the septuagenarian politician was a preventative measure after recent developments emerged.
This involved seeking to disable his ankle monitor and a invitation to a public vigil that could enable a possible escape.
Court Filing Details Escape Concerns
In a document approving the detention, the judge said intelligence from the unit overseeing the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's plan to remove the surveillance device to secure accomplishment in his getaway".
This, it said, would be made easier by the chaos caused by the protest called by his offspring.
His son, his son Flávio, who serves as a legislator, called for a gathering of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday night.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on digital networks on Friday: "Are you going to fight for your homeland, or see it all from your phone there on your settee? I urge you to fight with us."
He said the vigil would be so supporters could "pray for his physical condition and for the return of democracy in our nation."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of the judge's determination was the chance of the former president's "relocation to foreign missions near the residence, considering that the investigations revealed a history of organizing to seek refuge through a diplomatic representation", a statement said.
The court filing emphasizes that the United States embassy in the capital, Brasilia, is located around 8 miles from Bolsonaro's home.
International Reactions
His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow conservative nationalist United States President President Trump, prompting him to impose a half-rate duty on Brazilian product imports.
The former president is being kept in a national police facility in Brasilia and will have a imprisonment assessment on the next day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on the previous day that the his legal team asked the Supreme Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with tracking devices.
They also asked that the former president be authorized to depart his residence for medical care, saying he required ongoing care for respiratory ailments and other health problems.
Details of Guilty Verdict
He was found guilty of heading a conspiracy aimed at retaining his authority after he lost the presidential race to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Top judicial officials said that he was aware of a plot which included plans to murder his opponent and his VP candidate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to imprison and murder the presiding judge - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing Bolsonaro's trial.
The conspiracy was thwarted because it didn't receive the backing of the military leaders. Lula was inaugurated without problem on 1 January 2023.
But a seven days after, on January 8th, many his followers stormed and vandalised government buildings in the national capital, Brazil's capital.
The security forces intervened and around 1,500 people were arrested.
The magistrates found that the protesters had been encouraged by the former president whose plan, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, restore order and return him to office.
At the moment, the legal team called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also prohibited from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - eight years later after the completion of his term.
The former president called the court case a political persecution and said it was intended to stop him running in the 2026 national vote.
