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Jair Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities concluded he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under house arrest.

The ex-president was convicted of plotting a military coup in September and handed more than over two decades in prison, but he remained under house arrest pending appeals.

Top Judicial Official Justice Moraes said the action to imprison the 70-year-old politician was a precautionary step after recent developments were revealed.

This included attempting to break his ankle monitor and a summons to a public vigil that could enable a possible escape.

Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns

In a paperwork permitting the custody, Justice Moraes said data from the unit overseeing his home detention suggested the former leader's aim to disable the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his getaway".

This, it said, would be made easier by the disorder caused by the gathering called by his son.

His son, Flávio Bolsonaro, who holds office as a legislator, called for a assembly of his followers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on the weekend.

Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on digital networks on Friday: Will you battle for your nation, or observe everything from your mobile device there on your sofa? I urge you to struggle with us."

He said the demonstration would be so followers could offer prayers for his health and for the return of democracy in our land."

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of the magistrate's decision was the potential of the former president's move to diplomatic missions near the dwelling, considering that the probes revealed a record of organizing to ask for protection through a consular facility", a announcement said.

The legal document highlights that the United States embassy in the national capital, Brasilia, is located around 8 miles from Bolsonaro's home.

Worldwide Consequences

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 Brazilian product imports.

The former president is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in the capital and will experience a detention review on Sunday.

Recent Legal Requests

It was only on the previous day that the his legal team asked the Supreme Court to allow him to complete his entire prison term under domestic detention, with tracking devices.

They also petitioned that the former president be permitted to depart his residence for medical treatment, saying he demanded ongoing care for lung conditions and other ailments.

Details of Guilty Verdict

Bolsonaro was convicted of heading a plot aimed at retaining his authority after he lost the presidential race to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

High Court judges said that he had knowledge of a plan which encompassed plans to assassinate the current president and his VP candidate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to detain and kill Alexandre de Moraes - the High Court judge who has been managing Bolsonaro's trial.

The scheme was prevented because it failed to get the endorsement of the armed forces officials. Lula was inaugurated without problem on the first day of 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 detained.

The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been provoked by him whose strategy, they said, was for the country's army to intervene, reestablish control and bring him back to power.

At the moment, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the 27 years and three months sentence extremely harsh.

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

The ex-leader called the trial a political persecution and said it was designed to prevent him participating in the 2026 presidential election.