The former Brazilian leader has been detained after authorities concluded he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under home confinement.
The former head of state was convicted of orchestrating a military coup in September and handed more than 27 years in incarceration, but he was staying under confinement pending legal challenges.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the action to imprison the 70-year-old politician was a safety action after fresh information emerged.
This encompassed seeking to disable his tracking device and a invitation to a demonstration that could "allow for a potential flight.
Legal Document Reveals Escape Concerns
In a document approving the detention, the judge said intelligence from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the former leader's plan to remove the electronic ankle bracelet to ensure success in his getaway".
This, it said, would be made easier by the chaos caused by the protest called by his offspring.
His child, Flávio Bolsonaro, who works as a legislator, called for a assembly of his followers near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday night.
The senator wrote on digital networks on last Friday: "Are you going to fight for your nation, or observe everything from your mobile device there on your sofa? I invite you to fight 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 country."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of the judge's ruling was the possibility of his move to embassies near the residence, considering that the investigations revealed a background of planning to seek refuge through a consular facility", a announcement said.
The court filing underscores that the United States embassy in the federal district, Brazil's capital, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from the former president's residence.
Global Responses
His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow conservative nationalist American leader President Trump, causing him to enact a 50% tariff on imports of Brazilian goods.
The former president is being detained in a national police facility in Brazil's capital city and will experience a imprisonment assessment on Sunday.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on last Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the High Court to authorize him to serve his whole jail sentence under house arrest, with electronic monitoring.
They also asked that he be permitted to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he required frequent medical attention for lung conditions and other illnesses.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was convicted of leading a plot aimed at retaining his authority after he failed to win the presidential race to his ideological adversary, Lula.
Top judicial officials said that he had knowledge of a plot which involved plans to assassinate his opponent and his VP candidate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill the presiding judge - the High Court judge who has been managing his judicial proceedings.
The scheme was stopped because it couldn't obtain the endorsement of the armed forces officials. The current president was sworn in without issue on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on the eighth of January, many his followers attacked and damaged official structures in the national capital, Brazil's capital.
The police took action and around 1,500 people were detained.
The judges found that the rioters had been provoked by him whose scheme, they said, was for the Brazilian military to take action, bring back stability and reinstate his authority.
At the time, the legal team called the over 27-year sentence extremely harsh.
He was also barred from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - eight years after the completion of his term.
The one-time head of state called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was designed to prevent him participating in the 2026 national vote.
