The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities found 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 sentenced more than 27 years in jail, but he was staying under house arrest pending court reviews.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the decision to arrest the septuagenarian politician was a precautionary step after fresh information came to light.
This involved seeking to disable his electronic bracelet and a summons to a supporters' gathering that could facilitate a chance to flee".
Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns
In a paperwork permitting the detention, Justice Moraes said data from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the one-time head of state's plan to remove the surveillance device to ensure success in his getaway".
This, it said, would be made easier by the disorder caused by the protest called by his child.
His child, Flávio, who holds office as a senator, called for a meeting of his supporters near his father's house to take place on the weekend.
The senator wrote on social media on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your nation, or watch it all from your smartphone there on your couch? I invite you to battle with us."
He said the vigil would be so backers could seek divine intervention for his physical condition and for the return of democracy in our country."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of Justice Moraes's ruling was the potential of Bolsonaro's "relocation to foreign missions near the residence, considering that the investigations revealed a history of arranging to ask for protection through a embassy office", a statement said.
The legal document underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the federal district, the capital city, is situated around 13km from the former president's residence.
International Reactions
The former president's legal troubles have generated frustration from fellow right-wing populist US President President Trump, leading him to enact a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.
He is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in Brasilia and will have a custody hearing on the following day.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the High Court to allow him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.
They also requested that Bolsonaro be authorized to depart his residence for medical care, saying he required regular treatment for respiratory ailments and other illnesses.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was convicted of heading a conspiracy aimed at maintaining his control after he failed to win the national vote to his ideological adversary, President Lula.
High Court judges said that he had knowledge of a plan which included plans to assassinate the current president and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill Justice Moraes - the top judicial official who has been managing Bolsonaro's trial.
The plot was stopped because it didn't receive the endorsement of the armed forces officials. Lula was sworn in without problem on 1 January 2023.
But a following week, on the eighth of January, thousands of his followers attacked and damaged official structures in the federal district, Brasília.
The police took action and around fifteen hundred individuals were taken into custody.
The judges found that the rioters had been encouraged by Bolsonaro whose scheme, they said, was for the Brazilian military to step in, reestablish control and reinstate his authority.
At the period, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also barred from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.
The ex-leader called the trial a "witch hunt and said it was designed to prevent him running in the 2026 national vote.
