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Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities concluded he posed a concrete flight risk while under house arrest.

The ex-president was sentenced of planning a armed takeover in last fall and sentenced more than a 27-year term in jail, but he was staying under house arrest pending appeals.

Top Judicial Official Justice Moraes said the decision to arrest the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after recent developments were revealed.

This encompassed seeking to disable his ankle monitor and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could facilitate a potential flight.

Legal Document Reveals Flight Fears

In a document approving the detention, Justice Moraes said information from the centre monitoring the former president's confinement suggested the one-time head of state's aim to disable the tracking monitor to guarantee victory in his flight.

This, it said, would be made easier by the chaos caused by the gathering called by his child.

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

The senator wrote on social media on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your homeland, or watch it all from your mobile device there on your settee? I urge you to struggle with us."

He said the gathering would be so backers could seek divine intervention for his well-being and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our land."

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of Justice Moraes's decision was the possibility of the former president's "relocation to embassies near the home, considering that the probes revealed a record of arranging to ask for protection through a diplomatic representation", a declaration said.

The judicial paperwork emphasizes that the American diplomatic mission in the national capital, the capital city, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from the former president's residence.

Global Responses

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

He is being detained in a national police facility in the capital and will experience a detention review on the following day.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on the previous day that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the High Court to authorize him to fulfill his full incarceration period under house arrest, with electronic monitoring.

They also asked that Bolsonaro be permitted to leave his home for medical care, saying he demanded frequent medical attention for respiratory ailments and other ailments.

Details of Guilty Verdict

He was convicted of orchestrating a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the national vote to his political opponent, President Lula.

High Court judges said that he had knowledge of a scheme which encompassed plans to murder his opponent and his running partner, Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Alexandre de Moraes - the top judicial official who has been overseeing the former president's case.

The conspiracy was prevented because it failed to get the backing of the armed forces officials. 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, the capital city.

The security forces intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.

The justices found that the rioters had been incited by him whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, reestablish control and reinstate his authority.

At the time, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.

He was also barred from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - eight years after the end of his sentence.

The ex-leader called the trial a "witch hunt and said it was designed to prevent him running in the 2026 presidential election.