Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities determined he posed a definite escape threat while under domestic detention.
The former head of state was sentenced of planning a military coup in the ninth month and handed more than 27 years in prison, but he continued under home detention pending court reviews.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the decision to arrest the elderly politician was a safety action after recent developments emerged.
This encompassed seeking to disable his tracking device and a call for a supporters' gathering that could "allow for a chance to flee".
Legal Document Reveals Escape Concerns
In a paperwork permitting the detention, the judge said data from the facility tracking Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the former leader's "intention to break the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his escape.
This, it said, would be assisted by the disorder caused by the demonstration called by his offspring.
His child, his son Flávio, who works as a congressional representative, called for a gathering of his supporters near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday night.
His son wrote on digital networks on the previous day: "Are you going to fight for your nation, or see it all from your smartphone there on your couch? I urge you to struggle with us."
He said the gathering would be so backers could seek divine intervention for his physical condition and for the restoration of democratic rule in our land."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of the judge's ruling was the chance of his "relocation to diplomatic missions near the home, considering that the probes revealed a record of organizing to request asylum through a diplomatic representation", a statement said.
The judicial paperwork underscores that the US embassy in the capital, the capital city, is situated around 13km from the former president's residence.
Worldwide Consequences
Bolsonaro's legal woes have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative US President President Trump, prompting him to enact a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.
The former president is being held in a Federal Police station in Brazil's capital city and will experience a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on the previous day that the his legal team asked the Supreme Court to permit him to serve his whole jail sentence under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.
They also asked that he be permitted to depart his residence for medical care, saying he demanded ongoing care for lung conditions and other illnesses.
Background on Conviction
Bolsonaro was determined responsible of leading a plot aimed at retaining his authority after he failed to win the presidential race to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Supreme Court justices said that he knew of a scheme which included plans to kill the current president and his vice-presidential running mate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to arrest and execute Justice Moraes - the top judicial official who has been overseeing Bolsonaro's trial.
The plot was prevented because it couldn't obtain the support of the army and air force commanders. Lula was sworn in without problem on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on 8 January, numerous his backers invaded and destroyed government buildings in the national capital, Brazil's capital.
The security forces intervened and around approximately 1,500 persons were taken into custody.
The justices found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by him whose scheme, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, bring back stability and bring him back to power.
At the time, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also prohibited from seeking elected position until the year 2060 - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.
The one-time head of state called the court case a political persecution and said it was designed to prevent him competing in the 2026 presidential election.
