Jair Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities found he posed a concrete flight risk while under domestic detention.
The one-time leader was found guilty of plotting a government overthrow in last fall and handed more than 27 years in jail, but he continued under house arrest pending appeals.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Justice Moraes said the action to imprison the 70-year-old politician was a safety action after recent developments emerged.
This included seeking to disable his ankle monitor and a call for a demonstration that could enable a chance to flee".
Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns
In a document approving the arrest, the judge said intelligence from the centre monitoring his home detention suggested the one-time head of state's plan to remove the surveillance device to secure accomplishment in his flight.
This, it said, would be assisted by the chaos caused by the gathering called by his son.
His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, who holds office as a senator, called for a meeting of his followers near his father's house to take place on Saturday evening.
His son wrote on digital networks on the previous day: Will you battle for your homeland, or watch it all from your phone there on your sofa? I invite you to struggle with us."
He said the demonstration would be so followers could offer prayers for his health and for the return of democracy in our nation."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of the judge's determination was the possibility of his transfer to embassies near the home, considering that the investigations revealed a record of planning to seek refuge through a diplomatic representation", a declaration said.
The legal document emphasizes that the American diplomatic mission in the national capital, the capital city, is located around 13km from Bolsonaro's home.
Global Responses
Bolsonaro's legal woes have drawn the ire of fellow right-wing populist American leader Trump, prompting him to enact a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.
He is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in Brazil's capital city and will have a detention review on Sunday.
Recent Judicial Appeals
It was only on Friday that the his legal team asked the Supreme Court to allow him to complete his entire prison term under home confinement, with electronic monitoring.
They also petitioned that the former president be permitted to depart his residence for healthcare, saying he demanded regular treatment for pulmonary infections and other health problems.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was convicted of heading a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he was defeated in the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, President Lula.
High Court judges said that he had knowledge of a scheme which involved plans to kill the current president and his vice-presidential running mate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to detain and kill Alexandre de Moraes - the High Court judge who has been managing Bolsonaro's trial.
The scheme was stopped because it couldn't obtain the support of the army and air force commanders. Lula was took office without problem on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on January 8th, numerous his followers invaded and destroyed official structures in the capital, Brazil's capital.
The security forces intervened and around approximately 1,500 persons were taken into custody.
The judges found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by the former president whose scheme, they said, was for the national armed forces to step in, bring back stability and reinstate his authority.
At the period, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also prohibited from seeking elected position until the year 2060 - a decade minus two years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The ex-leader called the legal proceedings a "witch hunt and said it was designed to prevent him competing in the next presidential race.
