The former Brazilian leader has been detained after authorities concluded he posed a definite escape threat while under house arrest.
The ex-president was sentenced of planning a armed takeover in the ninth month and sentenced more than a 27-year term in jail, but he was staying under confinement pending court reviews.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the move to detain the 70-year-old politician was a precautionary step after "new facts" came to light.
This involved attempting to break his tracking device and a call for a public vigil that could "allow for a possible escape.
Judicial Records Show Escape Risks
In a filing authorising the detention, Justice Moraes said intelligence from the facility tracking the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's plan to remove the surveillance device to ensure success in his escape.
This, it said, would be assisted by the chaos caused by the protest called by his offspring.
His son, Flávio Bolsonaro, who works as a senator, called for a assembly of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday evening.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on digital networks on the previous day: Will you battle for your homeland, or see it all from your smartphone there on your couch? I call on you to battle with us."
He said the vigil would be so followers could "pray for his physical condition and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our land."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of the judge's decision was the potential of Bolsonaro's move to diplomatic missions near the home, considering that the inquiries revealed a record of arranging to seek refuge through a consular facility", a statement said.
The judicial paperwork emphasizes that the US embassy in the national capital, Brazil's capital, is situated around 8 miles from the former president's residence.
Global Responses
His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow right-wing populist US President Donald Trump, causing him to enact a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.
He is being detained in a Federal Police station in the capital and will experience a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Recent Judicial Appeals
It was only on Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Top Court to allow him to fulfill his full incarceration period under house arrest, with electronic monitoring.
They also asked that he be permitted to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he needed regular treatment for pulmonary infections and other health problems.
Details of Guilty Verdict
Bolsonaro was convicted of heading a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the national vote to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Supreme Court justices said that he had knowledge of a plan which encompassed plans to murder the current president and his running partner, his vice-presidential candidate, and to detain and kill Justice Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been overseeing the former president's case.
The conspiracy was stopped because it couldn't obtain the support of the military leaders. Lula was inaugurated without issue on 1 January 2023.
But a following week, on 8 January, numerous his backers stormed and vandalised official structures in the national capital, the capital city.
The security forces intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.
The justices found that the demonstrators had been provoked by him whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to take action, reestablish control and bring him back to power.
At the moment, the legal team called the over 27-year sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also banned from seeking elected position until 2060 - eight years after the completion of his term.
The former president called the trial a "witch hunt and said it was aimed at blocking him running in the next presidential race.
