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Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities determined he posed a concrete flight risk while under domestic detention.

The former head of state was sentenced of planning a government overthrow in the ninth month and given more than 27 years in incarceration, but he was staying under house arrest pending court reviews.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Justice Moraes said the move to detain the elderly politician was a safety action after fresh information were revealed.

This encompassed seeking to disable his tracking device and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could enable a potential flight.

Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns

In a paperwork permitting the detention, the magistrate said information from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the ex-president's aim to disable the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his flight.

This, it said, would be assisted by the chaos caused by the demonstration called by his child.

His son, Flávio, who serves as a senator, called for a assembly of his backers near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday evening.

Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on social media on Friday: Will you battle for your homeland, or see it all from your smartphone there on your settee? I call on you to struggle 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 land."

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of Justice Moraes's determination was the possibility of the former president's move to diplomatic missions near the dwelling, considering that the investigations revealed a background of planning to ask for protection through a diplomatic representation", a declaration said.

The legal document underscores that the United States embassy in the capital, Brasilia, is located around 8 miles from his dwelling.

Global Responses

His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow conservative nationalist United States President Donald Trump, leading him to enact a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.

The former president is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in Brasilia and will have a detention review on the following day.

Recent Judicial Appeals

It was only on the previous day that the his legal team asked the High Court to allow him to serve his whole jail sentence under house arrest, with electronic monitoring.

They also requested that the former president be authorized to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he demanded frequent medical attention for lung conditions and other illnesses.

Context of Sentencing

Bolsonaro was determined responsible of heading a plot aimed at maintaining his control after he was defeated in the 2022 election to his ideological adversary, President Lula.

Top judicial officials said that he knew of a plot which included plans to assassinate the current president and his VP candidate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to imprison and murder the presiding judge - the top judicial official who has been overseeing Bolsonaro's trial.

The scheme was thwarted because it failed to get the backing of the armed forces officials. His successor was took office without incident on 1 January 2023.

But a following week, on January 8th, many his backers stormed and vandalised public facilities in the capital, Brazil's capital.

The law enforcement stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.

The justices found that the protesters had been provoked by Bolsonaro whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to take action, bring back stability and reinstate his authority.

At the period, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.

He was also barred from running for public office until twenty-sixty - eight years later after the completion of his term.

The former president called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was designed to prevent him participating in the 2026 national vote.