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Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities determined he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under domestic detention.

The one-time leader was sentenced of plotting a armed takeover in last fall and sentenced more than 27 years in incarceration, but he was staying under home detention pending legal challenges.

High Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes said the decision to arrest the 70-year-old politician was a preventative measure after "new facts" came to light.

This involved attempting to break his ankle monitor and a invitation to a public vigil that could enable a possible escape.

Judicial Records Show Flight Fears

In a paperwork permitting the detention, the judge said information from the centre monitoring the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's plan to remove the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his flight.

This, it said, would be "facilitated by the chaos caused by the gathering called by his child.

His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, who holds office as a legislator, called for a meeting of his followers near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday night.

Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on social media on Friday: Will you battle for your homeland, or observe everything from your phone there on your settee? I invite you to battle with us."

He said the demonstration would be so followers could "pray for his physical condition and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our country."

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of the judge's ruling was the potential of Bolsonaro's transfer to foreign missions near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a background of organizing to ask for protection through a consular facility", a announcement said.

The judicial paperwork emphasizes that the American diplomatic mission in the national capital, Brasilia, is positioned around 8 miles from Bolsonaro's home.

Worldwide Consequences

The former president's legal troubles have drawn the ire of fellow populist conservative US President Trump, causing him to enact a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.

The former president is being kept in a Federal Police station in Brazil's capital city and will undergo a imprisonment assessment on the next day.

Latest Court Petitions

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 tracking devices.

They also asked that he be authorized to leave his home for medical treatment, saying he demanded ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other illnesses.

Context of Sentencing

He was convicted of heading a scheme aimed at retaining his authority after he was defeated in the 2022 election to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Top judicial officials said that he knew of a plan which included plans to murder the current president and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to arrest and execute Justice Moraes - the top judicial official who has been presiding over Bolsonaro's trial.

The conspiracy was stopped because it couldn't obtain the support of the army and air force commanders. The current president was took office without problem on 1 January 2023.

But a following week, on the eighth of January, numerous his backers invaded and destroyed government buildings in the national capital, Brazil's capital.

The police intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.

The justices found that the demonstrators had been incited by Bolsonaro whose scheme, they said, was for the Brazilian military to intervene, reestablish control and bring him back to power.

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

He was also barred from seeking elected position until 2060 - eight years after the end of his sentence.

The one-time head of state called the trial a "witch hunt and said it was designed to prevent him competing in the 2026 presidential election.