Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities found he posed a concrete flight risk while under house arrest.
The one-time leader was found guilty of planning a armed takeover in the ninth month and sentenced more than a 27-year term in incarceration, but he was staying under confinement pending legal challenges.
Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the action to imprison the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after "new facts" came to light.
This included seeking to disable his tracking device and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could "allow for a potential flight.
Judicial Records Show Escape Risks
In a filing authorising the arrest, the judge said data from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the one-time head of state's plan to remove the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his escape.
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the disorder caused by the gathering called by his son.
His child, Flávio, who serves as a senator, called for a gathering of his backers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday night.
His son wrote on social media on the previous day: Will you battle for your homeland, or watch it all from your phone there on your couch? I call on you to struggle with us."
He said the demonstration would be so followers could "pray for his well-being and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our country."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of the judge's decision was the potential of Bolsonaro's move to foreign missions near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a background of arranging to ask for protection through a diplomatic representation", a announcement said.
The judicial paperwork highlights that the United States embassy in the national capital, Brasilia, is situated around 8 miles from Bolsonaro's home.
International Reactions
His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow conservative nationalist United States President Donald Trump, causing him to impose a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.
Bolsonaro is being held in a national police facility in Brazil's capital city and will have a imprisonment assessment on Sunday.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on the previous day that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to permit him to complete his entire prison term under domestic detention, with digital surveillance.
They also petitioned that he be permitted to leave his home for healthcare, saying he demanded ongoing care for lung conditions and other ailments.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was determined responsible of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
High Court judges said that he knew of a plot which included plans to kill his opponent and his running partner, his vice-presidential candidate, and to imprison and murder Alexandre de Moraes - the High Court judge who has been managing Bolsonaro's trial.
The plot was thwarted because it didn't receive the support of the military leaders. His successor was took office without problem on 1 January 2023.
But a following week, on 8 January, thousands of his followers stormed and vandalised official structures in the capital, the capital city.
The security forces intervened and around 1,500 people were arrested.
The judges found that the demonstrators had been incited by him whose plan, they said, was for the national armed forces to take action, restore order and bring him back to power.
At the period, his attorneys called the 27 years and three months sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also banned from seeking elected position until the year 2060 - eight years after the end of his sentence.
The former president called the trial a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him running in the 2026 presidential election.
