Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities concluded he posed a definite escape threat while under house arrest.
The ex-president was found guilty of orchestrating a armed takeover in the ninth month and given more than 27 years in jail, but he remained under house arrest pending appeals.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the action to imprison the 70-year-old politician was a precautionary step after fresh information were revealed.
This encompassed attempting to break his tracking device and a summons to a supporters' gathering that could enable a chance to flee".
Legal Document Reveals Flight Fears
In a filing authorising the arrest, the magistrate said information from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the former leader's "intention to break the electronic ankle bracelet to secure accomplishment in his escape.
This, it said, would be assisted by the confusion caused by the gathering called by his child.
His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, who holds office as a legislator, called for a assembly of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on the weekend.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on digital networks on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your nation, or observe everything from your phone there on your sofa? I urge you to struggle with us."
He said the demonstration would be so followers could seek divine intervention for his health and for the restoration of democratic rule in our country."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of the magistrate's ruling was the potential of Bolsonaro's "relocation to diplomatic missions near the residence, considering that the investigations revealed a record of arranging to ask for protection through a consular facility", a statement said.
The court filing highlights that the US embassy in the federal district, Brasilia, is situated around 13km from the former president's residence.
International Reactions
The former president's legal troubles have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative United States President Donald Trump, prompting him to implement a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.
The former president is being detained in a federal law enforcement building in Brazil's capital city and will experience a imprisonment assessment on Sunday.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on Friday that the his legal team asked the Supreme Court to allow him to complete his entire prison term under house arrest, with tracking devices.
They also asked that he be allowed to leave his home for medical treatment, saying he needed regular treatment for respiratory ailments and other ailments.
Context of Sentencing
He was found guilty of heading a plot aimed at maintaining his control after he lost the national vote to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Supreme Court justices said that he knew of a plan which involved plans to assassinate Lula and his vice-presidential running mate, Alckmin, and to arrest and execute the presiding judge - the Supreme Court justice who has been overseeing the former president's case.
The scheme was thwarted because it didn't receive the endorsement of the military leaders. The current president was inaugurated without problem on the first day of 2023.
But a seven days after, on the eighth of January, numerous his followers stormed and vandalised public facilities in the national capital, Brasília.
The law enforcement stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.
The justices found that the protesters had been provoked by Bolsonaro whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to intervene, restore order and reinstate his authority.
At the moment, the legal team called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.
He was also prohibited from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.
The ex-leader called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was aimed at blocking him competing in the 2026 national vote.
