Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities determined he posed a definite escape threat while under house arrest.
The one-time leader was found guilty of plotting a government overthrow in the ninth month and given more than 27 years in incarceration, but he remained under house arrest pending court reviews.
Top Judicial Official Justice Moraes said the decision to arrest the elderly politician was a precautionary step after "new facts" came to light.
This encompassed trying to remove his electronic bracelet and a call for a supporters' gathering that could enable a chance to flee".
Judicial Records Show Flight Fears
In a document approving the arrest, Justice Moraes said intelligence from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the ex-president's aim to disable the tracking monitor to ensure success in his escape.
This, it said, would be assisted by the disorder caused by the protest called by his offspring.
His son, Flávio Bolsonaro, who serves as a senator, called for a meeting of his backers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday night.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on online platforms on last Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your nation, or observe everything from your mobile device there on your settee? I invite you to battle with us."
He said the vigil would be so supporters could seek divine intervention for his well-being and for the return of democracy in our nation."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of Justice Moraes's ruling was the possibility of his transfer to embassies near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a background of organizing to seek refuge through a embassy office", a declaration said.
The court filing highlights that the United States embassy in the federal district, Brazil's capital, is positioned around 13km from Bolsonaro's home.
Global Responses
His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative American leader Donald Trump, causing him to implement a half-rate duty on Brazilian product imports.
He is being kept in a national police facility in the capital and will undergo a imprisonment assessment on the next day.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Top Court to allow him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with tracking devices.
They also requested that he be allowed to leave his home for healthcare, saying he demanded ongoing care for respiratory ailments and other illnesses.
Context of Sentencing
He was found guilty of leading a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he was defeated in the 2022 election to his political opponent, Lula.
High Court judges said that he had knowledge of a plot which included plans to murder Lula and his running partner, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill Justice Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing the former president's case.
The scheme was prevented because it couldn't obtain the backing of the military leaders. Lula was sworn in without problem on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on the eighth of January, many his backers attacked and damaged government buildings in the federal district, the capital city.
The security forces stepped in and around approximately 1,500 persons were detained.
The magistrates found that the protesters had been encouraged by him whose plan, they said, was for the country's army to intervene, reestablish control and return him to office.
At the period, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the 27 years and three months sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also banned from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - eight years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The former president called the trial a "witch hunt and said it was aimed at blocking him running in the 2026 national vote.
