Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities found he posed a definite escape threat while under domestic detention.
The ex-president was sentenced of plotting a military coup in September and handed more than over two decades in prison, but he remained under home detention pending appeals.
High Court Judge Justice Moraes said the move to detain the septuagenarian politician was a preventative measure after recent developments were revealed.
This involved seeking to disable his electronic bracelet and a summons to a demonstration that could enable a potential flight.
Legal Document Reveals Flight Fears
In a document approving the arrest, the judge said information from the facility tracking the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's "intention to break the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his escape.
This, it said, would be made easier by the confusion caused by the demonstration called by his child.
His offspring, his son Flávio, who serves as a legislator, called for a meeting of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday evening.
The senator wrote on digital networks on last Friday: "Are you going to fight for your homeland, or observe everything from your smartphone there on your settee? I urge you to battle with us."
He said the gathering would be so backers could "pray for his physical condition and for the restoration of democratic rule in our country."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of Justice Moraes's determination was the potential of Bolsonaro's "relocation to embassies near the residence, considering that the investigations revealed a background of planning to ask for protection through a embassy office", a statement said.
The legal document highlights that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, the capital city, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from Bolsonaro's home.
Worldwide Consequences
The former president's legal troubles have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative American leader Trump, leading him to impose a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.
He is being held in a Federal Police station in Brazil's capital city and will experience a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Top Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under home confinement, with electronic monitoring.
They also requested that the former president be authorized to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he required regular treatment for pulmonary infections and other illnesses.
Details of Guilty Verdict
He was found guilty of orchestrating a scheme aimed at keeping him in power after he failed to win the presidential race to his political opponent, Lula.
High Court judges said that he knew of a plot which encompassed plans to murder the current president and his running partner, Geraldo Alckmin, and to arrest and execute Justice Moraes - the top judicial official who has been presiding over the former president's case.
The scheme was stopped because it failed to get the endorsement of the army and air force commanders. His successor was inaugurated without problem on 1 January 2023.
But a week later, on the eighth of January, numerous his followers attacked and damaged official structures in the federal district, Brasília.
The law enforcement stepped in and around approximately 1,500 persons were detained.
The judges found that the rioters had been encouraged by the former president whose plan, they said, was for the national armed forces to step in, restore order and reinstate his authority.
At the moment, the legal team called the over 27-year sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also prohibited from running for public office until the year 2060 - a decade minus two years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The former president called the trial a targeted investigation" and said it was intended to stop him competing in the next presidential race.
