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

The one-time leader was found guilty of orchestrating a armed takeover in last fall and handed more than a 27-year term in prison, but he remained under confinement pending legal challenges.

High Court Judge the presiding justice said the action to imprison the septuagenarian politician was a preventative measure after fresh information emerged.

This encompassed seeking to disable his electronic bracelet and a invitation to a demonstration that could facilitate a potential flight.

Legal Document Reveals Flight Fears

In a paperwork permitting the detention, Justice Moraes said information from the facility tracking the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's aim to disable the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his flight.

This, it said, would be "facilitated by the confusion caused by the demonstration called by his child.

His child, Flávio Bolsonaro, who works as a legislator, called for a assembly of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday evening.

The senator wrote on online platforms on last Friday: Will you battle for your nation, or watch it all from your mobile device there on your couch? I call on you to fight with us."

He said the gathering would be so supporters could "pray for his well-being and for the restoration of democratic rule in our nation."

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of the magistrate's decision was the chance of the former president's move to diplomatic missions near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a background of arranging to request asylum through a consular facility", a statement said.

The judicial paperwork underscores that the United States embassy in the federal district, Brasilia, is situated around approximately 13 kilometers from the former president's residence.

Worldwide Consequences

His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow right-wing populist United States President Trump, causing him to implement a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.

Bolsonaro is being held in a Federal Police station in Brazil's capital city and will undergo a imprisonment assessment on the next day.

Recent Judicial Appeals

It was only on Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Supreme Court to authorize him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with tracking devices.

They also asked that Bolsonaro be permitted to depart his residence for medical care, saying he required frequent medical attention for pulmonary infections and other ailments.

Context of Sentencing

The former president was found guilty of heading a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he was defeated in the presidential race to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

High Court judges said that he had knowledge of a scheme which included plans to murder the current president and his vice-presidential running mate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to imprison and murder the presiding judge - the Supreme Court justice who has been overseeing his judicial proceedings.

The scheme was thwarted because it failed to get the endorsement of the military leaders. Lula was inaugurated without issue on the first day of 2023.

But a week later, on the eighth of January, many his backers stormed and vandalised government buildings in the federal district, the capital city.

The police intervened and around approximately 1,500 persons were arrested.

The justices found that the rioters had been encouraged by the former president whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to step in, restore order and return him to office.

At the time, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the 27 years and three months sentence unreasonably severe".

He was also banned from seeking elected position until 2060 - a decade minus two years after the completion of his term.

The former president called the court case a targeted investigation" and said it was designed to prevent him running in the 2026 presidential election.