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Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities determined he posed a concrete flight risk while under home confinement.

The former head of state was convicted of planning a government overthrow in the ninth month and given more than over two decades in incarceration, but he remained under house arrest pending legal challenges.

High Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes said the action to imprison the 70-year-old politician was a preventative measure after "new facts" emerged.

This involved attempting to break his tracking device and a call for a supporters' gathering that could "allow for a potential flight.

Court Filing Details Escape Risks

In a paperwork permitting the custody, Justice Moraes said intelligence from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the former leader's plan to remove the surveillance device to secure accomplishment in his flight.

This, it said, would be made easier by the confusion caused by the gathering called by his son.

His child, Flávio, who holds office as a congressional representative, called for a assembly of his followers near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday night.

The senator wrote on digital networks on the previous day: "Are you going to fight for your country, or watch it all from your smartphone there on your couch? I urge you to battle with us."

He said the gathering would be so supporters could "pray for his well-being and for the return of democracy in our land."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of the judge's ruling was the possibility of Bolsonaro's "relocation to diplomatic missions near the home, considering that the probes revealed a record of organizing to request asylum through a embassy office", a declaration said.

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

International Reactions

Bolsonaro's legal woes have drawn the ire of fellow populist conservative US President President Trump, prompting him to implement a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.

The former president is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in Brazil's capital city and will undergo a imprisonment assessment on the following day.

Recent Judicial Appeals

It was only on Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Top Court to permit him to serve his whole jail sentence under house arrest, with tracking devices.

They also requested that he be allowed to leave his home for healthcare, saying he demanded ongoing care for respiratory ailments and other health problems.

Context of Sentencing

The former president was determined responsible of orchestrating a scheme aimed at maintaining his control after he failed to win the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Lula.

Supreme Court justices said that he had knowledge of a plan which involved plans to kill the current president and his vice-presidential running mate, Alckmin, and to arrest and execute Alexandre de Moraes - the High Court judge who has been managing the former president's case.

The conspiracy was prevented because it failed to get the support of the military leaders. The current president was took office without issue on the first day of 2023.

But a following week, on January 8th, numerous his backers attacked and damaged government buildings in the national capital, the capital city.

The security forces intervened and around approximately 1,500 persons were taken into custody.

The judges found that the protesters had been provoked by Bolsonaro whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to step in, reestablish control and return him to office.

At the moment, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the over 27-year sentence "absurdly excessive.

He was also barred from running for public office until twenty-sixty - eight years later after the conclusion of his imprisonment.

The ex-leader called the court case a targeted investigation" and said it was designed to prevent him competing in the 2026 national vote.