Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities determined he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under house arrest.
The one-time leader was sentenced of orchestrating a government overthrow in last fall and handed more than a 27-year term in jail, but he remained under confinement pending appeals.
High Court Judge the presiding justice said the action to imprison the septuagenarian politician was a precautionary step after fresh information emerged.
This encompassed trying to remove his electronic bracelet and a call for a supporters' gathering that could enable a potential flight.
Court Filing Details Escape Concerns
In a paperwork permitting the detention, Justice Moraes said intelligence from the facility tracking Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the ex-president's aim to disable the electronic ankle bracelet to ensure success in his flight.
This, it said, would be assisted by the chaos caused by the demonstration called by his offspring.
His son, his son Flávio, who holds office as a legislator, called for a gathering of his followers near his father's house to take place on Saturday night.
The senator wrote on social media on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your nation, or observe everything from your phone there on your settee? I urge you to struggle with us."
He said the demonstration would be so followers could seek divine intervention for his well-being and for the restoration of democratic rule in our nation."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of Justice Moraes's ruling was the potential of the former president's move to embassies near the residence, considering that the investigations revealed a record of planning to request asylum through a consular facility", a statement said.
The court filing underscores that the US embassy in the federal district, Brazil's capital, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.
Global Responses
His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow conservative nationalist United States President Trump, prompting him to enact a 50% tariff on imports of Brazilian goods.
He is being held in a Federal Police station in Brasilia and will experience a custody hearing on the next day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on last Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the High Court to allow him to fulfill his full incarceration period under house arrest, with electronic monitoring.
They also asked that he be allowed to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he needed frequent medical attention for pulmonary infections and other health problems.
Details of Guilty Verdict
He was found guilty of orchestrating a scheme aimed at retaining his authority after he failed to win the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
High Court judges said that he had knowledge of a scheme which included plans to kill the current president and his VP candidate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill the presiding judge - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing the former president's case.
The plot was thwarted because it didn't receive the support of the armed forces officials. The current president was inaugurated without issue on the first day of 2023.
But a seven days after, on the eighth of January, many his backers invaded and destroyed public facilities in the capital, Brasília.
The police took action and around approximately 1,500 persons were arrested.
The justices found that the rioters had been incited by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to step in, bring back stability and return him to office.
At the period, the legal team called the over 27-year sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also banned from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the completion of his term.
The one-time head of state called the legal proceedings a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him running in the 2026 presidential election.
