Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities found he posed a definite escape threat while under house arrest.
The one-time leader was found guilty of planning a armed takeover in September and handed more than over two decades in prison, but he continued under confinement pending appeals.
High Court Judge the presiding justice said the move to detain the 70-year-old politician was a precautionary step after "new facts" emerged.
This encompassed attempting to break his ankle monitor and a invitation to a demonstration that could enable a potential flight.
Court Filing Details Escape Concerns
In a document approving the detention, the magistrate said data from the centre monitoring his home detention suggested the ex-president's plan to remove the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his getaway".
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the confusion caused by the demonstration called by his offspring.
His son, his son Flávio, who holds office as a legislator, called for a gathering of his supporters near his father's house to take place on Saturday evening.
The senator wrote on digital networks on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your homeland, or see it all from your phone there on your sofa? I urge you to struggle with us."
He said the gathering would be so followers could "pray for his health and for the return of democracy in our land."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of Justice Moraes's determination was the chance of Bolsonaro's move to embassies near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a record of arranging to request asylum through a embassy office", a declaration said.
The judicial paperwork underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the national capital, the capital city, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from Bolsonaro's home.
Global Responses
The former president's legal troubles have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative United States President Trump, leading him to enact a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.
He is being held in a federal law enforcement building in Brasilia and will experience a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on last Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the High Court to authorize him to serve his whole jail sentence under home confinement, with digital surveillance.
They also requested that he be authorized to depart his residence for healthcare, saying he needed frequent medical attention for lung conditions and other health problems.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was convicted of leading a plot aimed at retaining his authority after he lost the 2022 election to his ideological adversary, President Lula.
High Court judges said that he knew of a plan which involved plans to kill Lula and his VP candidate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to arrest and execute Justice Moraes - the top judicial official who has been presiding over Bolsonaro's trial.
The conspiracy was thwarted because it failed to get the support of the military leaders. The current president was sworn in without incident on 1 January 2023.
But a week later, on January 8th, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters attacked and damaged public facilities in the national capital, Brasília.
The security forces intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.
The judges found that the rioters had been incited by him whose scheme, they said, was for the country's army to intervene, restore order and bring him back to power.
At the time, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.
He was also prohibited from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.
The ex-leader called the trial a political persecution and said it was designed to prevent him running in the next presidential race.
