Jair Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities found he posed a concrete flight risk while under house arrest.
The one-time leader was sentenced of orchestrating a government overthrow in September and sentenced more than a 27-year term in jail, but he continued under home detention pending legal challenges.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice the presiding justice said the action to imprison the elderly politician was a safety action after "new facts" were revealed.
This included seeking to disable his tracking device and a invitation to a public vigil that could enable a chance to flee".
Judicial Records Show Flight Fears
In a paperwork permitting the detention, Justice Moraes said intelligence from the unit overseeing his home detention suggested the one-time head of state's aim to disable the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his getaway".
This, it said, would be assisted by the confusion caused by the protest called by his son.
His child, Flávio Bolsonaro, who serves as a legislator, called for a meeting of his backers near the former president's residence to take place on the weekend.
The senator wrote on digital networks on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your homeland, or watch it all from your phone there on your settee? I urge you to fight with us."
He said the vigil would be so supporters could seek divine intervention for his well-being and for the return of democracy in our nation."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of the judge's determination was the possibility of Bolsonaro's transfer to embassies near the dwelling, 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 capital, Brazil's capital, is situated around 13km from his dwelling.
Worldwide Consequences
Bolsonaro's legal woes have generated frustration from fellow right-wing populist US President President Trump, leading him to implement a 50% tariff on imports of Brazilian goods.
The former president is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in Brazil's capital city and will experience a custody hearing on the following day.
Recent Judicial Appeals
It was only on the previous day that the former president's lawyers asked the High Court to permit him to complete his entire prison term under domestic detention, with tracking devices.
They also asked that the former president be authorized to leave his home for medical treatment, saying he required ongoing care for respiratory ailments and other ailments.
Context of Sentencing
Bolsonaro was found guilty of orchestrating a conspiracy aimed at maintaining his control after he lost the presidential race to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a plan which involved plans to kill his opponent and his vice-presidential running mate, Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Justice Moraes - the High Court judge who has been overseeing Bolsonaro's trial.
The plot was prevented because it failed to get the backing of the army and air force commanders. The current president was took office without incident on the first day of 2023.
But a week later, on January 8th, many Bolsonaro supporters invaded and destroyed official structures in the capital, the capital city.
The police stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.
The judges found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by the former president whose plan, they said, was for the Brazilian military to take action, reestablish control and bring him back to power.
At the moment, his attorneys called the 27 years and three months sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also prohibited from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the completion of his term.
The one-time head of state called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was aimed at blocking him participating in the 2026 presidential election.
