Jair Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities found he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under house arrest.
The ex-president was found guilty of plotting a government overthrow in the ninth month and handed more than over two decades in jail, but he remained under house arrest pending legal challenges.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the action to imprison the elderly politician was a safety action after "new facts" emerged.
This involved trying to remove his ankle monitor and a call for a public vigil that could "allow for a potential flight.
Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns
In a document approving the custody, the magistrate said information from the unit overseeing the former president's confinement suggested the ex-president's "intention to break the surveillance device to ensure success in his getaway".
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the disorder caused by the demonstration called by his child.
His child, Flávio, who holds office as a senator, called for a assembly of his followers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on the weekend.
The senator wrote on online platforms on Friday: "Are you going to fight for your country, or observe everything 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 restoration of democratic rule in our land."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of the judge's decision was the potential of his move to diplomatic missions near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a background of planning to seek refuge through a consular facility", a announcement said.
The judicial paperwork underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, the capital city, is situated around 13km from Bolsonaro's home.
Worldwide Consequences
Bolsonaro's legal woes have drawn the ire of fellow right-wing populist American leader Donald Trump, prompting him to enact a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.
The former president is being held in a national police facility in the capital and will undergo a imprisonment assessment on Sunday.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to permit him to serve his whole jail sentence under house arrest, with tracking devices.
They also petitioned that the former president be allowed to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he demanded regular treatment for pulmonary infections and other ailments.
Context of Sentencing
The former president was determined responsible of orchestrating a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he failed to win the presidential race to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
High Court judges said that he had knowledge of a plan which involved plans to kill Lula and his running partner, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill the presiding judge - the top judicial official who has been presiding over his judicial proceedings.
The plot was stopped because it failed to get the backing of the army and air force commanders. The current president was took office without problem on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on the eighth of January, numerous his followers stormed and vandalised public facilities in the capital, the capital city.
The law enforcement stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were taken into custody.
The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by the former president whose scheme, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, bring back stability and reinstate his authority.
At the moment, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the 27 years and three months sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also prohibited from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the completion of his term.
The former president called the legal proceedings a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him competing in the next presidential race.
