The former Brazilian leader has been taken into custody after authorities found he posed a concrete flight risk while under house arrest.
The former head of state was convicted of planning a military coup in the ninth month and handed more than over two decades in jail, but he remained under confinement pending legal challenges.
Top Judicial Official Alexandre de Moraes said the decision to arrest the elderly politician was a precautionary step after fresh information came to light.
This encompassed trying to remove his ankle monitor and a call for a demonstration that could "allow for a potential flight.
Judicial Records Show Escape Risks
In a document approving the arrest, Justice Moraes said intelligence from the facility tracking the former president's confinement 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 chaos caused by the protest called by his child.
His offspring, his son Flávio, who holds office as a senator, called for a assembly of his followers near his father's house to take place on the weekend.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on digital networks on Friday: Will you battle for your homeland, or see it all from your mobile device there on your settee? I invite you to struggle with us."
He said the demonstration would be so backers could offer prayers for his physical condition and for the restoration of democratic rule in our nation."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of the magistrate's decision was the possibility of Bolsonaro's move to foreign missions near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a background of arranging to request asylum through a diplomatic representation", a declaration said.
The court filing emphasizes that the United States embassy in the capital, Brasilia, is situated around approximately 13 kilometers from the former president's residence.
Worldwide Consequences
The former president's legal troubles have generated frustration from fellow right-wing populist United States President Donald Trump, leading him to enact a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.
The former president is being kept in a national police facility in the capital and will experience a imprisonment assessment on the next day.
Recent Judicial Appeals
It was only on last Friday that the his legal team asked the Supreme Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under house arrest, with electronic monitoring.
They also asked that Bolsonaro be permitted to exit his dwelling for medical care, saying he demanded ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other ailments.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was convicted of leading a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he failed to win the national vote to his political opponent, President Lula.
Top judicial officials said that he was aware of a plan which encompassed plans to assassinate his opponent and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Alexandre de Moraes - the top judicial official who has been presiding over the former president's case.
The conspiracy was thwarted because it failed to get the backing of the army and air force commanders. The current president was inaugurated without problem on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on January 8th, many Bolsonaro supporters attacked and damaged official structures in the national capital, Brazil's capital.
The security forces intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.
The judges found that the rioters had been provoked by him whose scheme, they said, was for the national armed forces to take action, restore order and return him to office.
At the period, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the 27 years and three months sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also prohibited from running for public office until 2060 - a decade minus two years after the completion of his term.
The one-time head of state called the legal proceedings a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him competing in the next presidential race.
