The former Brazilian leader has been taken into custody after authorities found he posed a definite escape threat while under house arrest.
The one-time leader was convicted of plotting a armed takeover in September and handed more than over two decades in prison, but he was staying under house arrest pending court reviews.
Top Judicial Official Justice Moraes said the action to imprison the 70-year-old politician was a safety action after fresh information came to light.
This involved attempting to break his electronic bracelet and a summons to a public vigil that could facilitate a chance to flee".
Legal Document Reveals Escape Risks
In a paperwork permitting the custody, the magistrate said intelligence from the unit overseeing the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's aim to disable the electronic ankle bracelet to secure accomplishment in his escape.
This, it said, would be assisted by the confusion caused by the demonstration called by his child.
His child, his son Flávio, who works as a senator, called for a gathering of his followers near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday evening.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on digital networks on last Friday: Will you battle for your country, or see it all from your mobile device there on your settee? I urge you to fight with us."
He said the demonstration would be so followers could seek divine intervention for his well-being and for the return of democracy in our land."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of the magistrate's ruling was the possibility of the former president's transfer to diplomatic missions near the residence, considering that the investigations revealed a record of organizing to ask for protection through a diplomatic representation", a announcement said.
The court filing underscores that the US embassy in the federal district, the capital city, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.
Worldwide Consequences
Bolsonaro's legal woes have generated frustration from fellow right-wing populist United States President President Trump, prompting him to impose a 50% tariff on goods coming from Brazil.
The former president is being kept in a national police facility in the capital and will undergo a imprisonment assessment on Sunday.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Top Court to authorize him to serve his whole jail sentence under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.
They also petitioned that the former president be permitted to exit his dwelling for medical treatment, saying he needed regular treatment for pulmonary infections and other health problems.
Background on Conviction
The former president was determined responsible of leading a plot aimed at maintaining his control after he lost the 2022 election to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Supreme Court justices said that he had knowledge of a plan which involved plans to assassinate Lula and his running partner, his vice-presidential candidate, and to detain and kill Alexandre de Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been overseeing the former president's case.
The scheme was stopped because it couldn't obtain the endorsement of the armed forces officials. The current president was inaugurated without problem on 1 January 2023.
But a seven days after, on 8 January, many his backers stormed and vandalised official structures in the federal district, Brasília.
The law enforcement intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were taken into custody.
The justices found that the rioters had been encouraged by him whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to step in, bring back stability and bring him back to power.
At the time, his attorneys called the over 27-year sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also barred from campaigning for office until the year 2060 - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.
The former president called the legal proceedings a political persecution and said it was aimed at blocking him running in the next presidential race.
