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Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities concluded he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under home confinement.

The one-time leader was sentenced of orchestrating a government overthrow in September and given more than 27 years in jail, but he remained under home detention pending legal challenges.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Justice Moraes said the move to detain the elderly politician was a precautionary step after fresh information emerged.

This encompassed attempting to break his tracking device and a invitation to a public vigil that could facilitate a possible escape.

Legal Document Reveals Escape Risks

In a filing authorising the custody, Justice Moraes said information from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the one-time head of state's aim to disable the electronic ankle bracelet to ensure success in his flight.

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

His offspring, his son Flávio, who holds office as a legislator, called for a assembly of his supporters near Bolsonaro's home to take place on the weekend.

The senator wrote on online platforms on the previous day: Will you battle for your homeland, or watch it all from your mobile device there on your couch? I call on you to battle with us."

He said the demonstration would be so backers could "pray for his well-being and for the return of democracy in our country."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of the magistrate's ruling was the chance of the former president's move to embassies near the home, considering that the investigations revealed a background of arranging to seek refuge through a embassy office", a statement said.

The judicial paperwork underscores that the US embassy in the federal district, the capital city, is situated around approximately 13 kilometers from the former president's residence.

Global Responses

His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow conservative nationalist US President Donald Trump, causing him to enact a half-rate duty on goods coming from Brazil.

Bolsonaro is being kept in a national police facility in Brazil's capital city and will have a imprisonment assessment on Sunday.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on Friday that the his legal team asked the Top Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under house arrest, with digital surveillance.

They also petitioned that the former president be permitted to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he needed frequent medical attention for lung conditions and other health problems.

Context of Sentencing

He was determined responsible of heading a scheme aimed at maintaining his control after he lost the presidential race to his ideological adversary, President Lula.

High Court judges said that he knew of a scheme which included plans to murder his opponent and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to imprison and murder the presiding judge - the top judicial official who has been presiding over the former president's case.

The conspiracy was stopped because it didn't receive the support of the army and air force commanders. The current president was took office without issue on 1 January 2023.

But a seven days after, on the eighth of January, many Bolsonaro supporters stormed and vandalised government buildings in the capital, Brasília.

The police stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.

The justices found that the demonstrators had been incited by Bolsonaro whose strategy, they said, was for the country's army to take action, reestablish control and return him to office.

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

He was also barred from running for public office until 2060 - eight years later after the end of his sentence.

The one-time head of state called the trial a political persecution and said it was designed to prevent him participating in the next presidential race.