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Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities concluded he posed a concrete flight risk while under home confinement.

The ex-president was found guilty of plotting a armed takeover in last fall and sentenced more than over two decades in incarceration, but he was staying under confinement pending court reviews.

Top Judicial Official Alexandre de Moraes said the action to imprison the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after "new facts" emerged.

This involved attempting to break his tracking device and a summons to a public vigil that could enable a chance to flee".

Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns

In a filing authorising the arrest, the magistrate said information from the unit overseeing the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's plan to remove the electronic ankle bracelet to secure accomplishment in his flight.

This, it said, would be made easier by the disorder caused by the demonstration called by his son.

His child, Flávio Bolsonaro, who holds office as a congressional representative, called for a gathering of his followers near his father's house to take place on the weekend.

His son wrote on social media on last Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your homeland, or see it all from your phone there on your couch? I invite you to struggle with us."

He said the demonstration would be so followers could offer prayers for his health and for the restoration of democratic rule in our land."

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of the magistrate's determination was the possibility of his move to foreign missions near the home, considering that the probes revealed a record of organizing to ask for protection through a diplomatic representation", a declaration said.

The judicial paperwork highlights that the United States embassy in the capital, the capital city, is located around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.

Global Responses

Bolsonaro's legal woes have generated frustration from fellow conservative nationalist American leader President Trump, leading him to enact a 50% tariff on goods coming from Brazil.

The former president is being detained in a national police facility in the capital and will experience a custody hearing on the following day.

Recent Judicial Appeals

It was only on the previous day that the former president's lawyers asked the High Court to authorize him to complete his entire prison term under house arrest, with tracking devices.

They also petitioned that he be authorized to depart his residence for medical care, saying he needed frequent medical attention for pulmonary infections and other health problems.

Details of Guilty Verdict

The former president was convicted of orchestrating a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he failed to win the presidential race to his ideological adversary, President Lula.

Top judicial officials said that he had knowledge of a scheme which encompassed plans to murder his opponent and his VP candidate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to detain and kill the presiding judge - the High Court judge who has been presiding over the former president's case.

The plot was prevented because it didn't receive the support of the armed forces officials. Lula was sworn in without issue on January 1st, 2023.

But a seven days after, on January 8th, numerous his followers attacked and damaged government buildings in the federal district, Brazil's capital.

The security forces stepped in and around approximately 1,500 persons were detained.

The magistrates found that the rioters had been provoked by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to step in, bring back stability and return him to office.

At the time, his attorneys called the 27 years and three months sentence unreasonably severe".

He was also barred from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.

The former president called the legal proceedings a political persecution and said it was designed to prevent him competing in the 2026 national vote.