The former Brazilian leader has been detained after authorities concluded he posed a concrete flight risk while under domestic detention.
The former head of state was found guilty of orchestrating a armed takeover in last fall and handed more than 27 years in incarceration, but he remained under confinement pending appeals.
Top Judicial Official Alexandre de Moraes said the action to imprison the septuagenarian politician was a precautionary step after "new facts" came to light.
This involved trying to remove his tracking device and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could enable a possible escape.
Court Filing Details Flight Fears
In a filing authorising the detention, the judge said information from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the former leader's aim to disable the tracking monitor to guarantee victory in his escape.
This, it said, would be made easier by the chaos caused by the gathering called by his child.
His son, his son Flávio, who works as a legislator, called for a meeting of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday night.
His son wrote on social media on Friday: Will you battle for your nation, or watch it all from your smartphone there on your settee? I call on you to struggle with us."
He said the demonstration would be so supporters could seek divine intervention for his health and for the restoration of democratic rule in our country."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of the magistrate's ruling was the potential of the former president's transfer to embassies near the home, considering that the investigations revealed a history of arranging to ask for protection through a embassy office", a statement said.
The legal document emphasizes that the United States embassy in the federal district, the capital city, is located around 8 miles from his dwelling.
Global Responses
Bolsonaro's legal woes have provoked anger from fellow right-wing populist United States President Trump, causing him to enact a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.
The former president is being detained in a Federal Police station in Brazil's capital city and will have a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the High Court to permit him to serve his whole jail sentence under home confinement, with digital surveillance.
They also petitioned that Bolsonaro be allowed to exit his dwelling for medical care, saying he needed frequent medical attention for respiratory ailments and other health problems.
Details of Guilty Verdict
He was found guilty of heading a scheme aimed at maintaining his control after he was defeated in the 2022 election to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
High Court judges said that he was aware of a plot which involved plans to kill Lula and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to arrest and execute Justice Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been overseeing his judicial proceedings.
The plot was stopped because it failed to get the support of the armed forces officials. The current president was inaugurated without issue on the first day of 2023.
But a week later, on the eighth of January, thousands of his backers attacked and damaged public facilities in the capital, Brazil's capital.
The law enforcement took action and around approximately 1,500 persons were arrested.
The justices found that the protesters had been encouraged by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to step in, restore order and bring him back to power.
At the moment, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also barred from running for public office until twenty-sixty - eight years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The one-time head of state called the legal proceedings a political persecution and said it was intended to stop him competing in the next presidential race.
