The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities determined he posed a definite escape threat while under home confinement.
The one-time leader was found guilty of orchestrating a military coup in the ninth month and given more than a 27-year term in incarceration, but he continued under house arrest pending appeals.
Top Judicial Official Justice Moraes said the action to imprison the elderly politician was a preventative measure after "new facts" came to light.
This encompassed seeking to disable his ankle monitor and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could enable a possible escape.
Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns
In a document approving the arrest, Justice Moraes said intelligence from the centre monitoring his home detention suggested the former leader's aim to disable the tracking monitor to ensure success in his getaway".
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the chaos caused by the demonstration called by his child.
His son, Flávio, who works as a congressional representative, called for a meeting of his followers near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday evening.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on digital networks on Friday: "Are you going to fight for your homeland, or observe everything from your mobile device there on your settee? I call on you to fight with us."
He said the vigil would be so supporters could offer prayers for his physical condition and for the return of democracy in our nation."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of the judge's determination was the chance of Bolsonaro's "relocation to foreign missions near the home, considering that the investigations revealed a record of organizing to ask for protection through a embassy office", a statement said.
The legal document highlights that the American diplomatic mission in the federal district, Brazil's capital, is situated around 13km from Bolsonaro's home.
Worldwide Consequences
His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow populist conservative US President Trump, causing him to enact a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.
He is being detained in a national police facility in the capital and will have a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Latest Court Petitions
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 house arrest, with electronic monitoring.
They also asked that Bolsonaro be permitted to depart his residence for medical care, saying he needed regular treatment for respiratory ailments and other ailments.
Details of Guilty Verdict
Bolsonaro was convicted of orchestrating a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he failed to win the national vote to his political opponent, Lula.
Top judicial officials said that he had knowledge of a plan which involved plans to assassinate the current president and his running partner, Geraldo Alckmin, and to arrest and execute Justice Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been presiding over his judicial proceedings.
The scheme was thwarted because it couldn't obtain the endorsement of the armed forces officials. Lula was took office without issue on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on the eighth of January, many his followers stormed and vandalised official structures in the national capital, Brasília.
The police stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.
The judges found that the rioters had been incited by the former president whose scheme, they said, was for the country's army to intervene, bring back stability and reinstate his authority.
At the time, his attorneys called the over 27-year sentence extremely harsh.
He was also barred from running for public office until twenty-sixty - eight years after the completion of his term.
The ex-leader called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was designed to prevent him participating in the next presidential race.
