The former Brazilian leader has been detained after authorities determined he posed a definite escape threat while under domestic detention.
The former head of state was found guilty of planning a armed takeover in last fall and sentenced more than a 27-year term in jail, but he continued under home detention pending legal challenges.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the decision to arrest the 70-year-old politician was a precautionary step after fresh information emerged.
This encompassed trying to remove his electronic bracelet and a call for a supporters' gathering that could enable a potential flight.
Court Filing Details Escape Concerns
In a document approving the arrest, Justice Moraes said data from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the former leader's aim to disable the surveillance device to guarantee victory in his flight.
This, it said, would be made easier by the disorder caused by the protest called by his son.
His son, his son Flávio, who serves as a senator, called for a meeting of his backers near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday night.
The senator wrote on digital networks on last Friday: "Are you going to fight for your homeland, or watch it all from your smartphone there on your couch? I invite you to battle with us."
He said the vigil would be so followers could offer prayers for his physical condition and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our nation."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of the magistrate's ruling was the possibility of the former president's "relocation to embassies near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a history of arranging to request asylum through a diplomatic representation", a announcement said.
The judicial paperwork underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the national capital, Brasilia, is situated around 13km from the former president's residence.
Global Responses
His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow populist conservative US President Trump, causing him to implement a 50% tariff on Brazilian product imports.
He is being kept in a Federal Police station in Brazil's capital city and will experience a imprisonment assessment on Sunday.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on last Friday that the his legal team asked the Supreme Court to allow him to serve his whole jail sentence under house arrest, with electronic monitoring.
They also petitioned that he be authorized to leave his home for healthcare, saying he demanded regular treatment for lung conditions and other ailments.
Details of Guilty Verdict
He was found guilty of heading a plot aimed at retaining his authority after he failed to win the 2022 election to his political opponent, President Lula.
Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a plan which included plans to murder his opponent and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill Justice Moraes - the top judicial official who has been overseeing the former president's case.
The scheme was prevented because it didn't receive the endorsement of the military leaders. His successor was took office without issue on the first day of 2023.
But a seven days after, on 8 January, thousands of his backers attacked and damaged government buildings in the capital, Brazil's capital.
The police took action and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.
The justices found that the demonstrators had been encouraged by him whose scheme, they said, was for the country's army to take action, bring back stability and bring him back to power.
At the moment, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the over 27-year sentence extremely harsh.
He was also banned from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.
The former president called the trial a targeted investigation" and said it was intended to stop him running in the 2026 national vote.
