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Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities determined he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under house arrest.

The ex-president was found guilty of orchestrating a military coup in September and handed more than over two decades in prison, but he was staying under confinement pending court reviews.

Top Judicial Official Justice Moraes said the move to detain the elderly politician was a safety action after "new facts" came to light.

This encompassed attempting to break his ankle monitor and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could enable a chance to flee".

Legal Document Reveals Escape Concerns

In a paperwork permitting the arrest, the judge said data from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the one-time head of state's "intention to break the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his getaway".

This, it said, would be assisted by the confusion caused by the gathering called by his son.

His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, who works as a legislator, called for a assembly of his backers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday night.

Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on digital networks on the previous day: Will you battle for your country, or observe everything from your mobile device there on your couch? I call on you to fight with us."

He said the demonstration would be so backers could offer prayers for his health and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our land."

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of Justice Moraes's decision was the potential of Bolsonaro's "relocation to diplomatic missions near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a background of organizing to seek refuge through a embassy office", a declaration said.

The judicial paperwork underscores that the US embassy in the federal district, Brazil's capital, is located around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.

International Reactions

Bolsonaro's legal woes have provoked anger from fellow populist conservative US President President Trump, leading him to implement a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.

He is being kept in a national police facility in Brazil's capital city and will experience a imprisonment assessment on the following day.

Recent Legal Requests

It was only on last Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Top Court to allow him to fulfill his full incarceration period under home confinement, with tracking devices.

They also asked that the former president be permitted to leave his home for medical treatment, saying he needed regular treatment for respiratory ailments and other ailments.

Details of Guilty Verdict

Bolsonaro was determined responsible of orchestrating a conspiracy aimed at retaining his authority after he lost the 2022 election to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Supreme Court justices said that he knew of a plot which included plans to murder Lula and his VP candidate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to detain and kill Alexandre de Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been presiding over the former president's case.

The conspiracy was stopped because it couldn't obtain the backing of the military leaders. Lula was sworn in without problem on January 1st, 2023.

But a seven days after, on January 8th, numerous Bolsonaro supporters stormed and vandalised government buildings in the national capital, Brazil's capital.

The police intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.

The justices found that the rioters had been encouraged by him whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to step in, bring back stability and bring him back to power.

At the period, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence "absurdly excessive.

He was also barred from running for public office until twenty-sixty - eight years later after the end of his sentence.

The one-time head of state called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was aimed at blocking him running in the next presidential race.