The former Brazilian leader has been detained after authorities determined he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under home confinement.
The one-time leader was sentenced of plotting a armed takeover in the ninth month and sentenced more than over two decades in incarceration, but he remained under confinement pending appeals.
High Court Judge Justice Moraes said the move to detain the elderly politician was a precautionary step after recent developments emerged.
This encompassed trying to remove his ankle monitor and a invitation to a demonstration that could enable a possible escape.
Judicial Records Show Escape Risks
In a paperwork permitting the detention, the judge said intelligence from the unit overseeing Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the former leader's "intention to break the tracking monitor to ensure success in his flight.
This, it said, would be assisted by the disorder caused by the protest called by his offspring.
His son, Flávio, who holds office as a senator, called for a meeting of his followers near his father's house to take place on the weekend.
His son wrote on digital networks on Friday: "Are you going to fight for your country, or observe everything from your mobile device there on your sofa? I urge you to fight with us."
He said the vigil would be so supporters could offer prayers for his health and for the restoration of democratic rule in our country."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of Justice Moraes's decision was the chance of his transfer to diplomatic missions near the home, considering that the inquiries revealed a background of arranging to ask for protection through a diplomatic representation", a announcement said.
The judicial paperwork emphasizes that the American diplomatic mission in the national capital, Brasilia, is positioned around 13km from his dwelling.
Global Responses
His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow conservative nationalist US President Trump, prompting him to enact a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.
He is being held in a federal law enforcement building in Brazil's capital city and will undergo a custody hearing on the next day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on last Friday that the his legal team asked the Supreme Court to allow him to serve his whole jail sentence under home confinement, with tracking devices.
They also petitioned that the former president be permitted to depart his residence for healthcare, saying he demanded ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other health problems.
Background on Conviction
The former president was determined responsible of leading a scheme aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the national vote to his political opponent, President Lula.
Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a scheme which included plans to assassinate Lula and his VP candidate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill the presiding judge - the Supreme Court justice who has been overseeing the former president's case.
The conspiracy was thwarted because it couldn't obtain the endorsement of the army and air force commanders. His successor was sworn in without problem on the first day of 2023.
But a week later, on the eighth of January, many his followers invaded and destroyed public facilities in the capital, Brazil's capital.
The security forces stepped in and around 1,500 people were arrested.
The justices found that the protesters had been encouraged by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the country's army to take action, bring back stability and bring him back to power.
At the time, the legal team called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also banned from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - eight years later after the end of his sentence.
The former president called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was designed to prevent him participating in the next presidential race.
