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Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities found he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under home confinement.

The ex-president was found guilty of planning a military coup in last fall and sentenced more than over two decades in incarceration, but he continued under house arrest pending legal challenges.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Justice Moraes said the action to imprison the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after "new facts" were revealed.

This involved seeking to disable his ankle monitor and a call for a supporters' gathering that could facilitate a possible escape.

Court Filing Details Escape Concerns

In a paperwork permitting the detention, Justice Moraes said information from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the ex-president's aim to disable the electronic ankle bracelet to ensure success in his escape.

This, it said, would be made easier by the disorder caused by the protest called by his son.

His offspring, Flávio, who holds office as a congressional representative, called for a assembly of his supporters near his father's house to take place on Saturday night.

His son wrote on digital networks on the previous day: Will you battle for your homeland, or observe everything from your phone there on your sofa? I call on you to fight with us."

He said the vigil would be so followers could seek divine intervention for his physical condition and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our land."

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of the magistrate's ruling was the potential of the former president's "relocation to foreign missions near the residence, considering that the inquiries revealed a record of planning to ask for protection through a embassy office", a announcement said.

The judicial paperwork underscores that the US embassy in the capital, Brazil's capital, is situated around 8 miles from Bolsonaro's home.

Global Responses

Bolsonaro's legal woes have provoked anger from fellow conservative nationalist United States President Trump, leading him to enact a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.

He is being kept in a Federal Police station in Brazil's capital city and will experience a custody hearing on Sunday.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on the previous day that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to allow him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.

They also asked that he be allowed to leave his home for medical care, saying he required ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other health problems.

Details of Guilty Verdict

The former president was convicted of leading a conspiracy aimed at retaining his authority after he lost the presidential race to his left-wing rival, President Lula.

Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a scheme which included plans to assassinate the current president and his running partner, his vice-presidential candidate, and to detain and kill Justice Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been overseeing his judicial proceedings.

The scheme was stopped because it couldn't obtain the endorsement of the army and air force commanders. The current president was took office without problem on January 1st, 2023.

But a following week, on 8 January, numerous his backers attacked and damaged official structures in the federal district, the capital city.

The law enforcement stepped in and around 1,500 people were taken into custody.

The justices found that the rioters had been incited by him whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to take action, bring back stability and bring him back to power.

At the time, the legal team called the over 27-year sentence extremely harsh.

He was also banned from running for public office until the year 2060 - a decade minus two years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.

The ex-leader called the trial a targeted investigation" and said it was designed to prevent him running in the 2026 presidential election.