Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities found he posed a concrete flight risk while under home confinement.
The one-time leader was found guilty of planning a military coup in last fall and given more than a 27-year term in jail, but he continued under confinement pending court reviews.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice the presiding justice said the action to imprison the elderly politician was a precautionary step after fresh information were revealed.
This involved trying to remove his ankle monitor and a invitation to a public vigil that could "allow for a potential flight.
Legal Document Reveals Flight Fears
In a paperwork permitting the custody, Justice Moraes said data 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 flight.
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the chaos caused by the demonstration called by his offspring.
His son, Flávio Bolsonaro, who holds office as a senator, called for a assembly of his followers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday night.
Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on social media on Friday: Will you battle for your nation, or see it all from your mobile device there on your couch? I urge you to fight with us."
He said the gathering would be so supporters could "pray for his health and for the restoration of democratic rule in our land."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of the judge's determination was the possibility of the former president's transfer to diplomatic missions near the residence, considering that the inquiries revealed a history of arranging to request asylum through a embassy office", a statement said.
The court filing highlights that the US embassy in the national capital, Brazil's capital, is situated around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.
Global Responses
His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow conservative nationalist United States President Donald Trump, leading him to implement a 50% tariff on goods coming from Brazil.
The former president is being held in a Federal Police station in Brasilia and will experience a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on Friday that the his legal team asked the High Court to allow him to fulfill his full incarceration period under house arrest, with electronic monitoring.
They also petitioned that he be permitted to leave his home for healthcare, saying he required ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other health problems.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was determined responsible of heading a scheme aimed at keeping him in power after he was defeated in the presidential race to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Top judicial officials said that he knew of a plan which encompassed plans to kill the current president and his vice-presidential running mate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to detain and kill Justice Moraes - the High Court judge who has been managing Bolsonaro's trial.
The plot was stopped because it didn't receive the endorsement of the army and air force commanders. Lula was took office without issue on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on the eighth of January, numerous his followers stormed and vandalised government buildings in the national capital, Brazil's capital.
The security forces stepped in and around 1,500 people were arrested.
The justices found that the rioters had been provoked by the former president whose scheme, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, reestablish control and return him to office.
At the moment, his attorneys called the over 27-year sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also barred from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - eight years later after the end of his sentence.
The former president called the legal proceedings a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him competing in the 2026 presidential election.
