The former Brazilian leader has been taken into custody after authorities found he posed a concrete flight risk while under home confinement.
The one-time leader was found guilty of plotting a government overthrow in September and sentenced more than over two decades in jail, but he was staying under confinement pending appeals.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the action to imprison the elderly politician was a safety action after recent developments emerged.
This encompassed attempting to break his tracking device and a summons to a demonstration that could "allow for a chance to flee".
Court Filing Details Escape Concerns
In a document approving the custody, Justice Moraes said data from the unit overseeing his home detention suggested the ex-president's "intention to break the tracking monitor to guarantee victory in his escape.
This, it said, would be made easier by the confusion caused by the demonstration called by his son.
His child, Flávio, who serves as a senator, called for a gathering of his supporters near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday night.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on social media on Friday: Will you battle for your country, or observe everything from your mobile device there on your settee? I invite you to battle with us."
He said the demonstration would be so supporters could seek divine intervention for his health and for the return of democracy in our nation."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of the judge's determination was the potential of the former president's transfer to foreign missions near the home, considering that the investigations revealed a history of organizing to ask for protection through a consular facility", a statement said.
The judicial paperwork emphasizes that the United States embassy in the capital, the capital city, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from Bolsonaro's home.
International Reactions
The former president's legal troubles have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative United States President President Trump, leading him to enact a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.
The former president is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in Brasilia and will experience a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Top Court to allow him to fulfill his full incarceration period under home confinement, with tracking devices.
They also requested that Bolsonaro be permitted to depart his residence for healthcare, saying he required ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other health problems.
Context of Sentencing
He was convicted of heading a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he failed to win the presidential race to his ideological adversary, Lula.
High Court judges said that he was aware of a scheme which encompassed plans to kill the current president and his vice-presidential running mate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to imprison and murder Justice Moraes - the High Court judge who has been overseeing Bolsonaro's trial.
The scheme was prevented because it couldn't obtain the endorsement of the military leaders. Lula was took office without problem on 1 January 2023.
But a following week, on the eighth of January, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters invaded and destroyed government buildings in the federal district, Brazil's capital.
The law enforcement intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.
The magistrates found that the rioters had been provoked by him whose plan, they said, was for the national armed forces to step in, bring back stability and bring him back to power.
At the time, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the over 27-year sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also barred from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - eight years later after the end of his sentence.
The former president called the legal proceedings a political persecution and said it was designed to prevent him participating in the next presidential race.
