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Jair Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities determined he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under home confinement.

The one-time leader was convicted of plotting a military coup in September and sentenced more than over two decades in jail, but he continued under home detention pending appeals.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the action to imprison the septuagenarian politician was a precautionary step after fresh information came to light.

This encompassed seeking to disable his ankle monitor and a invitation to a public vigil that could enable a chance to flee".

Court Filing Details Escape Concerns

In a document approving the detention, the judge said intelligence from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the former leader's plan to remove the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his flight.

This, it said, would be made easier by the chaos caused by the protest called by his child.

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

Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on digital networks on Friday: Will you battle for your country, or see it all from your phone there on your settee? I urge you to fight with us."

He said the vigil would be so followers could offer prayers for his physical condition and for the return of democracy in our nation."

Diplomatic Refuge Fears

Part of the magistrate's ruling was the chance of the former president's transfer to embassies near the dwelling, considering that the investigations revealed a record of arranging to seek refuge through a diplomatic representation", a announcement said.

The judicial paperwork highlights that the American diplomatic mission in the federal district, the capital city, is located around 8 miles from the former president's residence.

Global Responses

His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow right-wing populist United States President Donald Trump, leading him to implement a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.

He is being held in a federal law enforcement building in Brazil's capital city and will have a custody hearing on the following day.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Top Court to allow him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with tracking devices.

They also asked that Bolsonaro be permitted to exit his dwelling for healthcare, saying he demanded regular treatment for pulmonary infections and other health problems.

Background on Conviction

The former president was found guilty of orchestrating a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he was defeated in the national vote to his ideological adversary, President Lula.

High Court judges said that he had knowledge of a scheme which encompassed plans to murder Lula and his vice-presidential running mate, Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Justice Moraes - the High Court judge who has been presiding over Bolsonaro's trial.

The plot was stopped because it didn't receive the backing of the military leaders. Lula was took office without problem on January 1st, 2023.

But a seven days after, on 8 January, many Bolsonaro supporters attacked and damaged public facilities in the capital, the capital city.

The security forces intervened and around approximately 1,500 persons were detained.

The justices found that the protesters had been provoked by the former president whose scheme, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, reestablish control and bring him back to power.

At the moment, the legal team called the 27 years and three months sentence "absurdly excessive.

He was also barred from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the end of his sentence.

The former president called the legal proceedings a "witch hunt and said it was designed to prevent him running in the 2026 national vote.