The former Brazilian leader has been taken into custody after authorities found he posed a concrete flight risk while under house arrest.
The one-time leader was convicted of plotting a armed takeover in the ninth month and sentenced more than over two decades in prison, but he continued under home detention pending legal challenges.
Top Judicial Official Justice Moraes said the action to imprison the elderly politician was a precautionary step after fresh information emerged.
This encompassed trying to remove his tracking device and a call for a public vigil that could facilitate a chance to flee".
Judicial Records Show Escape Risks
In a filing authorising the detention, the judge said intelligence from the centre monitoring his home detention suggested the ex-president's "intention to break the surveillance device to guarantee victory in his escape.
This, it said, would be made easier by the confusion caused by the demonstration called by his offspring.
His son, his son Flávio, who holds office as a congressional representative, called for a gathering of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday evening.
His son wrote on online platforms on last Friday: Will you battle for your country, or observe everything from your phone there on your couch? I invite you to battle with us."
He said the demonstration would be so supporters could "pray for his health and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our land."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of Justice Moraes's decision was the potential of Bolsonaro's "relocation to embassies near the home, considering that the probes revealed a history of organizing to seek refuge through a diplomatic representation", a announcement said.
The judicial paperwork highlights that the US embassy in the federal district, the capital city, is situated around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.
Global Responses
His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow populist conservative American leader President Trump, causing him to impose a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.
He is being detained in a federal law enforcement building in Brazil's capital city and will undergo a detention review on Sunday.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Supreme Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under house arrest, with electronic monitoring.
They also requested that he be permitted to depart his residence for medical treatment, saying he required frequent medical attention for respiratory ailments and other health problems.
Background on Conviction
Bolsonaro was found guilty of orchestrating a scheme aimed at retaining his authority after he failed to win the 2022 election to his ideological adversary, President Lula.
High Court judges said that he was aware of a plot which involved plans to kill the current president and his running partner, his vice-presidential candidate, and to arrest and execute the presiding judge - the Supreme Court justice who has been overseeing the former president's case.
The scheme was thwarted because it failed to get the backing of the armed forces officials. His successor was sworn in without issue on the first day of 2023.
But a seven days after, on January 8th, numerous his followers stormed and vandalised official structures in the federal district, the capital city.
The security forces took action and around approximately 1,500 persons were taken into custody.
The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by Bolsonaro whose plan, they said, was for the country's army to take action, restore order and bring him back to power.
At the time, the legal team called the 27 years and three months sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also barred from running for public office until twenty-sixty - eight years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The former president called the trial a political persecution and said it was intended to stop him running in the 2026 presidential election.
