Jair Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities determined he posed a definite escape threat while under home confinement.
The ex-president was sentenced of planning a military coup in last fall and handed more than 27 years in prison, but he remained under house arrest pending court reviews.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the action to imprison the elderly politician was a precautionary step after "new facts" came to light.
This encompassed trying to remove his ankle monitor and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could enable a possible escape.
Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns
In a filing authorising the arrest, the judge said intelligence from the unit overseeing his home detention suggested the former leader's aim to disable the electronic ankle bracelet to secure accomplishment in his escape.
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the chaos caused by the gathering called by his child.
His son, Flávio, who holds office as a congressional representative, called for a meeting of his backers near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday evening.
His son wrote on digital networks on the previous day: "Are you going to fight for your country, or watch it all from your phone there on your couch? I invite you to fight with us."
He said the gathering would be so followers could "pray for his well-being and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our land."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of the magistrate's decision was the potential of Bolsonaro's move to embassies near the residence, considering that the investigations revealed a history of planning to seek refuge through a consular facility", a statement said.
The court filing emphasizes that the American diplomatic mission in the federal district, Brazil's capital, is situated around 13km from Bolsonaro's home.
Global Responses
His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow populist conservative American leader Trump, prompting him to enact a half-rate duty on Brazilian product imports.
He is being held in a federal law enforcement building in Brazil's capital city and will have a imprisonment assessment on the next day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on the previous day that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to authorize him to complete his entire prison term under home confinement, with tracking devices.
They also asked that the former president be allowed to depart his residence for medical care, saying he required regular treatment for respiratory ailments and other health problems.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was determined responsible of orchestrating a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the national vote to his ideological adversary, President Lula.
Top judicial officials said that he knew of a plan which included plans to kill Lula and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill Justice Moraes - the High Court judge who has been managing Bolsonaro's trial.
The conspiracy was thwarted because it couldn't obtain the support of the military leaders. His successor was sworn in without issue on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on the eighth of January, many his followers stormed and vandalised government buildings in the federal district, Brasília.
The security forces stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.
The justices found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to take action, reestablish control and return him to office.
At the time, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the over 27-year sentence extremely harsh.
He was also banned from seeking elected position until the year 2060 - eight years later after the completion of his term.
The former president called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him participating in the 2026 national vote.
