The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities concluded he posed a definite escape threat while under house arrest.
The ex-president was convicted of planning a military coup in September and handed more than a 27-year term in incarceration, but he remained under confinement pending legal challenges.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the action to imprison the 70-year-old politician was a precautionary step after recent developments came to light.
This encompassed trying to remove his tracking device and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could "allow for a potential flight.
Court Filing Details Escape Risks
In a paperwork permitting the custody, the judge said intelligence from the facility tracking Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the former leader's aim to disable the surveillance device to guarantee victory in his getaway".
This, it said, would be assisted by the chaos caused by the gathering called by his son.
His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, who holds office as a legislator, called for a gathering of his supporters near his father's house to take place on the weekend.
His son wrote on social media on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your country, or see it all from your phone there on your couch? I urge you to fight with us."
He said the vigil would be so followers could "pray for his health and for the restoration of democratic rule in our land."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of the magistrate's ruling was the possibility of Bolsonaro's transfer to embassies near the home, considering that the investigations revealed a history of planning to request asylum through a diplomatic representation", a declaration said.
The legal document highlights that the US embassy in the national capital, Brasilia, is situated around 13km from Bolsonaro's home.
Worldwide Consequences
Bolsonaro's legal woes have drawn the ire of fellow right-wing populist American leader President Trump, leading him to enact a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.
The former president is being detained in a national police facility in Brazil's capital city and will undergo a custody hearing on the following day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on Friday that the his legal team asked the Top Court to authorize him to serve his whole jail sentence under domestic detention, with digital surveillance.
They also requested that the former president be allowed to depart his residence for medical treatment, saying he needed frequent medical attention for respiratory ailments and other ailments.
Background on Conviction
The former president was determined responsible of heading a plot aimed at maintaining his control after he was defeated in the presidential race to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Top judicial officials said that he was aware of a plan which included plans to murder his opponent and his VP candidate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill Alexandre de Moraes - the High Court judge who has been presiding over his judicial proceedings.
The scheme was thwarted because it didn't receive the backing of the army and air force commanders. Lula was took office without problem on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on 8 January, thousands of his followers invaded and destroyed official structures in the national capital, Brazil's capital.
The security forces took action and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.
The judges found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by the former president whose plan, they said, was for the country's army to intervene, bring back stability and bring him back to power.
At the moment, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also barred from running for public office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The ex-leader called the legal proceedings a targeted investigation" and said it was aimed at blocking him participating in the next presidential race.
