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Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities found he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under home confinement.

The one-time leader was convicted of plotting a armed takeover in September and handed more than over two decades in incarceration, but he was staying under home detention pending legal challenges.

High Court Judge the presiding justice said the action to imprison the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after recent developments emerged.

This included attempting to break his ankle monitor and a summons to a public vigil that could facilitate a chance to flee".

Legal Document Reveals Escape Concerns

In a document approving the custody, Justice Moraes said information from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the ex-president's aim to disable the tracking monitor to guarantee victory in his getaway".

This, it said, would be assisted by the confusion caused by the gathering called by his offspring.

His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, who works as a senator, called for a assembly of his backers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday night.

Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on online platforms on the previous day: "Are you going to fight for your nation, or observe everything from your phone there on your settee? I urge you to struggle with us."

He said the gathering would be so backers could seek divine intervention for his physical condition and for the return of democracy in our land."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of Justice Moraes's determination was the chance of Bolsonaro's transfer to embassies near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a record of arranging to seek refuge through a consular facility", a statement said.

The judicial paperwork underscores that the United States embassy in the capital, Brazil's capital, is positioned around 8 miles from the former president's residence.

Worldwide Consequences

Bolsonaro's legal woes have drawn the ire of fellow populist conservative United States President Donald Trump, causing him to impose a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.

He is being detained in a national police facility in the capital and will undergo a custody hearing on the following day.

Recent Legal Requests

It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with tracking devices.

They also requested that the former president be allowed to leave his home for medical care, saying he demanded ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other ailments.

Background on Conviction

Bolsonaro was found guilty of heading a plot aimed at maintaining his control after he was defeated in the presidential race to his left-wing rival, Lula.

Supreme Court justices said that he had knowledge of a plot which involved plans to murder Lula and his VP candidate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to imprison and murder Alexandre de Moraes - the top judicial official who has been overseeing Bolsonaro's trial.

The scheme was prevented because it didn't receive the support of the army and air force commanders. The current president was sworn in without incident on January 1st, 2023.

But a following week, on the eighth of January, numerous Bolsonaro supporters stormed and vandalised official structures in the capital, Brasília.

The police took action and around 1,500 people were taken into custody.

The justices found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the country's army to take action, restore order and return him to office.

At the period, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.

He was also barred from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - eight 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 competing in the 2026 national vote.