The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities found he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under house arrest.
The ex-president was found guilty of planning a government overthrow in the ninth month and handed more than over two decades in jail, but he continued under confinement pending appeals.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the decision to arrest the 70-year-old politician was a safety action after "new facts" came to light.
This encompassed trying to remove his electronic bracelet and a summons to a supporters' gathering that could "allow for a possible escape.
Court Filing Details Escape Risks
In a paperwork permitting the detention, Justice Moraes said information from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the former leader's aim to disable the electronic ankle bracelet to guarantee victory in his escape.
This, it said, would be assisted by the chaos caused by the gathering called by his child.
His son, his son Flávio, who holds office as a legislator, called for a gathering of his backers near his father's house to take place on Saturday evening.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on digital networks on Friday: "Are you going to fight for your country, or watch it all from your smartphone there on your settee? I urge you to fight with us."
He said the vigil would be so supporters could "pray for his health and for the return of democracy in our nation."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of the magistrate's decision was the potential of his move to foreign missions near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a record of organizing to ask for protection through a diplomatic representation", a statement said.
The judicial paperwork underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, Brasilia, is positioned around 13km from his dwelling.
International Reactions
His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow populist conservative American leader President Trump, causing him to enact a 50% tariff on imports of Brazilian goods.
The former president is being held in a national police facility in Brazil's capital city and will experience a custody hearing on the next day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on the previous day that the former president's lawyers asked the High Court to authorize him to fulfill his full incarceration period under house arrest, with tracking devices.
They also requested that he be permitted to leave his home for healthcare, saying he demanded regular treatment for lung conditions and other illnesses.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was found guilty of heading a plot aimed at maintaining his control after he failed to win the presidential race to his ideological adversary, President Lula.
Supreme Court justices said that he was aware of a plan which involved plans to kill the current president and his VP candidate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill Alexandre de Moraes - the top judicial official who has been overseeing the former president's case.
The conspiracy was stopped because it didn't receive the backing of the armed forces officials. His successor was inaugurated without problem on January 1st, 2023.
But a week later, on the eighth of January, numerous Bolsonaro supporters stormed and vandalised official structures in the federal district, Brazil's capital.
The security forces intervened and around approximately 1,500 persons were taken into custody.
The judges found that the protesters had been incited by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the country's army to intervene, bring back stability and return him to office.
At the moment, his attorneys called the over 27-year sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also banned from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - eight years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The former president called the court case a political persecution and said it was intended to stop him competing in the next presidential race.
