Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities concluded he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under home confinement.
The former head of state was found guilty of orchestrating a government overthrow in September and sentenced more than over two decades in prison, but he remained under house arrest pending legal challenges.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Justice Moraes said the action to imprison the septuagenarian politician was a preventative measure after recent developments were revealed.
This encompassed attempting to break his tracking device and a invitation to a demonstration that could "allow for a possible escape.
Judicial Records Show Flight Fears
In a document approving the detention, Justice Moraes said intelligence from the facility tracking Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the ex-president's aim to disable the tracking monitor to guarantee victory in his escape.
This, it said, would be made easier by the chaos caused by the demonstration called by his offspring.
His child, Flávio, who holds office as a legislator, called for a meeting of his followers near the former president's residence to take place on the weekend.
His son 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 couch? I call on you to struggle with us."
He said the vigil would be so backers could seek divine intervention for his physical condition and for the restoration of democratic rule in our land."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of the magistrate's determination was the chance of the former president's move to embassies near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a background of arranging to seek refuge through a embassy office", a declaration said.
The legal document emphasizes that the United States embassy in the capital, Brasilia, is located around 8 miles from Bolsonaro's home.
Global Responses
The former president's legal troubles have generated frustration from fellow conservative nationalist US President President Trump, leading him to implement a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.
The former president is being held in a Federal Police station in Brazil's capital city and will experience a detention review on Sunday.
Recent Judicial Appeals
It was only on the previous day that the former president's lawyers asked the Top Court to permit him to serve his whole jail sentence under house arrest, with digital surveillance.
They also petitioned that he be permitted to depart his residence for medical care, saying he demanded frequent medical attention for respiratory ailments and other ailments.
Background on Conviction
The former president was convicted of leading a scheme aimed at keeping him in power after he failed to win the presidential race to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
High Court judges said that he was aware of a plot which encompassed plans to assassinate Lula and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Alexandre de Moraes - the High Court judge who has been presiding over the former president's case.
The scheme was stopped because it didn't receive the endorsement of the military leaders. Lula was took office without problem on the first day of 2023.
But a week later, on the eighth of January, many his backers stormed and vandalised official structures in the national capital, the capital city.
The police intervened and around approximately 1,500 persons were taken into custody.
The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been incited by Bolsonaro whose scheme, they said, was for the Brazilian military to take action, reestablish control and bring him back to power.
At the time, the legal team called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.
He was also prohibited from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - eight years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The ex-leader called the trial a targeted investigation" and said it was intended to stop him running in the next presidential race.
