The former Brazilian leader has been taken into custody after authorities determined he posed a definite escape threat while under home confinement.
The ex-president was sentenced of orchestrating a military coup in the ninth month and given more than over two decades in incarceration, but he continued under home detention pending appeals.
High Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes said the decision to arrest the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after fresh information were revealed.
This encompassed attempting to break his electronic bracelet and a summons to a public vigil that could enable a chance to flee".
Court Filing Details Escape Risks
In a document approving the arrest, Justice Moraes said intelligence from the facility tracking Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the ex-president's aim to disable the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his flight.
This, it said, would be made easier by the disorder caused by the protest called by his offspring.
His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, who works as a congressional representative, called for a gathering of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on the weekend.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on social media on last Friday: "Are you going to fight for your homeland, or watch it all from your phone there on your settee? I urge you to struggle with us."
He said the demonstration would be so supporters could "pray for his physical condition and for the return of democracy in our nation."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of Justice Moraes's ruling was the possibility of the former president's "relocation to foreign missions near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a record of planning to ask for protection through a consular facility", a announcement said.
The judicial paperwork highlights that the United States embassy in the federal district, Brasilia, is located around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.
Global Responses
His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow right-wing populist American leader Trump, causing him to implement a 50% tariff on imports of Brazilian goods.
He is being held in a Federal Police station in Brasilia and will undergo a detention review on the next day.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the High Court to allow him to serve his whole jail sentence under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.
They also asked that he be allowed to depart his residence for healthcare, saying he required ongoing care for lung conditions and other health problems.
Background on Conviction
Bolsonaro was convicted of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the national vote to his ideological adversary, Lula.
High Court judges said that he knew of a plot which involved plans to kill the current president and his VP candidate, Alckmin, and to detain and kill the presiding judge - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing the former president's case.
The conspiracy was thwarted because it failed to get the support of the armed forces officials. Lula was took office without incident on the first day of 2023.
But a week later, on the eighth of January, numerous his followers attacked and damaged public facilities in the capital, the capital city.
The security forces intervened and around approximately 1,500 persons were taken into custody.
The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by Bolsonaro whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to intervene, bring back stability and bring him back to power.
At the time, his attorneys called the over 27-year sentence extremely harsh.
He was also prohibited from seeking elected position until the year 2060 - eight years later after the end of his sentence.
The former president called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him running in the next presidential race.
