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The former Brazilian leader has been detained after authorities concluded he posed a concrete flight risk while under house arrest.

The former head of state was sentenced of plotting a government overthrow in the ninth month and given more than 27 years in prison, but he was staying under house arrest pending legal challenges.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the action to imprison the elderly politician was a safety action after recent developments were revealed.

This encompassed seeking to disable his electronic bracelet and a invitation to a public vigil that could facilitate a possible escape.

Judicial Records Show Flight Fears

In a filing authorising the arrest, the judge said information from the facility tracking Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the one-time head of state's "intention to break the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his getaway".

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

His offspring, his son Flávio, who works as a congressional representative, called for a meeting of his backers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday night.

The senator wrote on social media on the previous day: "Are you going to fight for your homeland, or observe everything from your smartphone there on your sofa? I invite you to struggle with us."

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

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of Justice Moraes's determination was the chance of Bolsonaro's move to foreign missions near the residence, considering that the investigations revealed a history of organizing to ask for protection through a embassy office", a declaration said.

The judicial paperwork emphasizes that the American diplomatic mission in the national capital, Brasilia, is located around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.

Global Responses

His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative United States President Trump, leading him to impose a half-rate duty on goods coming from Brazil.

The former president is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in Brazil's capital city and will have a custody hearing on Sunday.

Recent Judicial Appeals

It was only on last Friday that the his legal team asked the High Court to allow him to fulfill his full incarceration period under house arrest, with digital surveillance.

They also asked that the former president be authorized to leave his home for healthcare, saying he required regular treatment for lung conditions and other ailments.

Details of Guilty Verdict

He was determined responsible of orchestrating a conspiracy aimed at maintaining his control after he lost the presidential race to his ideological adversary, President Lula.

Supreme Court justices said that he knew of a scheme which involved plans to murder the current president and his VP candidate, Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Justice Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been overseeing the former president's case.

The plot was stopped because it didn't receive the support of the armed forces officials. His successor was inaugurated without problem on the first day of 2023.

But a following week, on January 8th, numerous his backers attacked and damaged official structures in the national capital, Brazil's capital.

The police stepped in and around approximately 1,500 persons were taken into custody.

The judges found that the demonstrators had been incited by Bolsonaro whose plan, they said, was for the Brazilian military to intervene, reestablish control and bring him back to power.

At the time, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.

He was also banned from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - eight years later after the end of his sentence.

The former president called the trial a "witch hunt and said it was aimed at blocking him running in the 2026 national vote.