Jair Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities found he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under home confinement.
The one-time leader was sentenced of planning a armed takeover in last fall and sentenced more than 27 years in incarceration, but he was staying under home detention pending appeals.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the action to imprison the septuagenarian politician was a precautionary step after recent developments emerged.
This involved trying to remove his tracking device and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could "allow for a possible escape.
Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns
In a paperwork permitting the arrest, Justice Moraes said information from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the former leader's aim to disable the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his getaway".
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the chaos caused by the gathering called by his son.
His offspring, Flávio, who holds office as a legislator, called for a assembly of his backers near his father's house to take place on Saturday night.
His son wrote on digital networks on the previous day: "Are you going to fight for your nation, or observe everything from your mobile device there on your couch? I call on you to battle with us."
He said the vigil would be so followers could "pray for his well-being and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our country."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of the judge's decision was the potential of Bolsonaro's move to foreign missions near the home, considering that the investigations revealed a record of planning to seek refuge through a embassy office", a announcement said.
The legal document highlights that the United States embassy in the federal district, the capital city, is situated around 8 miles from the former president's residence.
Global Responses
The former president's legal troubles have drawn the ire of fellow right-wing populist United States President Donald Trump, causing him to enact a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.
He is being kept in a Federal Police station in the capital and will have a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Recent Judicial Appeals
It was only on last Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Top Court to authorize him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with tracking devices.
They also petitioned that Bolsonaro be permitted to leave his home for healthcare, saying he required ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other illnesses.
Context of Sentencing
He was found guilty of heading a conspiracy aimed at retaining his authority after he was defeated in the national vote to his political opponent, President Lula.
Top judicial officials said that he knew of a plan which encompassed plans to kill Lula and his running partner, Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Alexandre de Moraes - the top judicial official who has been presiding over his judicial proceedings.
The plot was prevented because it couldn't obtain the backing of the army and air force commanders. The current president was took office without incident on January 1st, 2023.
But a seven days after, on the eighth of January, numerous his backers stormed and vandalised public facilities in the federal district, the capital city.
The police stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.
The judges found that the demonstrators had been incited by the former president whose plan, they said, was for the Brazilian military to intervene, bring back stability and reinstate his authority.
At the time, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.
He was also banned from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - eight years after the end of his sentence.
The one-time head of state called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was designed to prevent him participating in the 2026 presidential election.
