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Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities found he posed a definite escape threat while under domestic detention.

The ex-president was sentenced of plotting a armed takeover in September and given more than over two decades in incarceration, but he continued under house arrest pending legal challenges.

High Court Judge the presiding justice said the move to detain the 70-year-old politician was a preventative measure after fresh information were revealed.

This encompassed trying to remove his ankle monitor and a call for a supporters' gathering that could facilitate a chance to flee".

Court Filing Details Flight Fears

In a filing authorising the detention, Justice Moraes said data from the unit overseeing the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's aim to disable the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his escape.

This, it said, would be "facilitated by the chaos caused by the demonstration called by his son.

His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, who works as a legislator, called for a meeting of his supporters near his father's house to take place on Saturday evening.

His son wrote on online platforms on Friday: "Are you going to fight for your country, or watch it all from your smartphone there on your sofa? I urge you to struggle with us."

He said the gathering would be so followers could seek divine intervention for his well-being and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our nation."

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of Justice Moraes's determination was the potential of the former president's move to foreign missions near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a background of planning to ask for protection through a diplomatic representation", a announcement said.

The legal document highlights that the US embassy in the capital, the capital city, is located around 8 miles from his dwelling.

International Reactions

His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow conservative nationalist US President Trump, leading him to impose a 50% tariff on Brazilian product imports.

He is being held in a Federal Police station in Brasilia and will have a imprisonment assessment on Sunday.

Recent Judicial Appeals

It was only on the previous day that the his legal team asked the High Court to allow him to serve his whole jail sentence under home confinement, with digital surveillance.

They also asked that he be permitted to depart his residence for healthcare, saying he needed ongoing care for lung conditions and other health problems.

Background on Conviction

He was determined responsible of orchestrating a plot aimed at retaining his authority after he lost the presidential race to his ideological adversary, President Lula.

Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a plan which involved plans to murder Lula and his running partner, Geraldo Alckmin, and to arrest and execute Justice Moraes - the top judicial official who has been overseeing his judicial proceedings.

The conspiracy was prevented because it couldn't obtain the backing of the armed forces officials. Lula was took office without problem on January 1st, 2023.

But a week later, on January 8th, many Bolsonaro supporters invaded and destroyed official structures in the federal district, the capital city.

The police took action and around 1,500 people were taken into custody.

The judges found that the rioters had been provoked by the former president whose plan, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, reestablish control and reinstate his authority.

At the time, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".

He was also banned from running for public office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.

The ex-leader called the legal proceedings a political persecution and said it was designed to prevent him running in the next presidential race.