Jair Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities concluded he posed a concrete flight risk while under home confinement.
The one-time leader was sentenced of plotting a armed takeover in the ninth month and handed more than over two decades in prison, but he was staying under confinement pending legal challenges.
High Court Judge the presiding justice said the action to imprison the 70-year-old politician was a preventative measure after fresh information came to light.
This encompassed seeking to disable his tracking device and a invitation to a demonstration that could "allow for a potential flight.
Judicial Records Show Flight Fears
In a document approving the arrest, Justice Moraes said intelligence from the facility tracking the former president's confinement suggested the one-time head of state's plan to remove the surveillance device to guarantee victory in his flight.
This, it said, would be made easier by the confusion caused by the protest called by his child.
His son, his son Flávio, who serves as a senator, called for a meeting of his followers near his father's house to take place on Saturday night.
His son wrote on digital networks on Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your nation, or watch it all from your smartphone there on your settee? I invite you to battle with us."
He said the gathering would be so supporters could seek divine intervention for his health and for the restoration of democratic rule in our country."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of Justice Moraes's determination was the potential of the former president's "relocation to diplomatic missions near the home, considering that the inquiries revealed a background of organizing to ask for protection through a diplomatic representation", a declaration said.
The court filing highlights that the US embassy in the federal district, the capital city, is situated around approximately 13 kilometers from Bolsonaro's home.
Global Responses
His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow conservative nationalist United States President Donald Trump, leading him to impose a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.
He is being held in a federal law enforcement building in Brasilia and will have a imprisonment assessment on the next day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on the previous day that the his legal team asked the Top Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with digital surveillance.
They also asked that Bolsonaro be permitted to leave his home for medical care, saying he required frequent medical attention for lung conditions and other illnesses.
Context of Sentencing
He was convicted of heading a plot aimed at maintaining his control after he lost the presidential race to his political opponent, President Lula.
Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a scheme which encompassed plans to kill Lula and his VP candidate, Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Alexandre de Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing the former president's case.
The plot was stopped because it couldn't obtain the backing of the military leaders. His successor was took office without problem on the first day of 2023.
But a week later, on the eighth of January, thousands of his followers attacked and damaged government buildings in the federal district, the capital city.
The law enforcement intervened and around 1,500 people were taken into custody.
The justices found that the rioters had been encouraged by him whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to step in, bring back stability and reinstate his authority.
At the period, his attorneys called the 27 years and three months sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also prohibited from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - eight years later after the completion of his term.
The one-time head of state called the legal proceedings a "witch hunt and said it was designed to prevent him participating in the next presidential race.
