The former Brazilian leader has been taken into custody after authorities concluded he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under domestic detention.
The ex-president was sentenced of plotting a armed takeover in September and sentenced more than 27 years in jail, but he remained under home detention pending court reviews.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the action to imprison the elderly politician was a precautionary step after recent developments came to light.
This involved seeking to disable his electronic bracelet and a invitation to a demonstration that could "allow for a possible escape.
Court Filing Details Escape Concerns
In a document approving the custody, the judge said information from the unit overseeing Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the former leader's aim to disable the surveillance device to ensure success in his escape.
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the confusion caused by the protest called by his offspring.
His child, Flávio Bolsonaro, who serves as a legislator, called for a assembly of his supporters near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday night.
The senator wrote on social media on the previous day: "Are you going to fight for your homeland, or observe everything from your phone there on your sofa? I call on you to battle with us."
He said the gathering would be so followers could offer prayers for his health and for the restoration of democratic rule in our nation."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of the magistrate's decision was the chance of the former president's transfer to foreign missions near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a record of arranging to seek refuge through a embassy office", a declaration said.
The legal document emphasizes that the United States embassy in the federal district, the capital city, is situated around 8 miles from the former president's residence.
International Reactions
Bolsonaro's legal woes have provoked anger from fellow conservative nationalist United States President President Trump, causing him to implement a half-rate duty on Brazilian product imports.
He is being detained in a Federal Police station in Brazil's capital city and will undergo a detention review on Sunday.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the High Court to allow him to serve his whole jail sentence under domestic detention, with digital surveillance.
They also petitioned that he be allowed to leave his home for medical treatment, saying he needed ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other illnesses.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was found guilty of heading a scheme aimed at keeping him in power after he failed to win the presidential race to his ideological adversary, Lula.
High Court judges said that he was aware of a scheme which involved plans to kill the current president and his running partner, Alckmin, and to detain and kill Alexandre de Moraes - the top judicial official who has been overseeing the former president's case.
The conspiracy was thwarted because it didn't receive the endorsement of the armed forces officials. The current president was inaugurated without issue on the first day of 2023.
But a seven days after, on the eighth of January, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters invaded and destroyed public facilities in the national capital, Brazil's capital.
The police intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.
The judges found that the protesters had been provoked by him whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to take action, bring back stability and bring him back to power.
At the moment, his attorneys called the over 27-year sentence extremely harsh.
He was also barred from campaigning for office until 2060 - eight years later after the end of his sentence.
The former president called the trial a political persecution and said it was intended to stop him competing in the 2026 presidential election.
