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The former Brazilian leader has been detained after authorities found he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under house arrest.

The ex-president was found guilty of planning a armed takeover in September and sentenced more than 27 years in incarceration, but he remained under confinement pending appeals.

High Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes said the decision to arrest the 70-year-old politician was a preventative measure after fresh information came to light.

This involved seeking to disable his electronic bracelet and a call for a demonstration that could facilitate a chance to flee".

Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns

In a paperwork permitting the custody, the judge said information from the centre monitoring the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's plan to remove the tracking monitor to guarantee victory in his escape.

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

His offspring, his son Flávio, who serves as a senator, called for a assembly of his supporters near his father's house to take place on Saturday evening.

Flávio Bolsonaro wrote on online platforms on Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your homeland, or see it all from your mobile device there on your couch? I urge you to struggle with us."

He said the demonstration would be so supporters could offer prayers for his well-being and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our land."

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of Justice Moraes's decision was the chance of the former president's "relocation to embassies near the dwelling, considering that the inquiries revealed a history of planning to ask for protection through a embassy office", a announcement said.

The judicial paperwork emphasizes that the United States embassy in the capital, the capital city, is positioned around 8 miles from his dwelling.

Worldwide Consequences

His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow populist conservative US President Donald Trump, leading him to enact a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.

Bolsonaro is being detained in a national police facility in Brazil's capital city and will have a imprisonment assessment on the following day.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the High Court to allow him to complete his entire prison term under house arrest, with digital surveillance.

They also requested that he be allowed to depart his residence for healthcare, saying he demanded regular treatment for pulmonary infections and other ailments.

Details of Guilty Verdict

He was determined responsible of orchestrating a plot aimed at retaining his authority after he failed to win the 2022 election to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Supreme Court justices said that he had knowledge of a plot which encompassed plans to assassinate his opponent and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Alexandre de Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been presiding over Bolsonaro's trial.

The plot was prevented because it failed to get the backing of the military leaders. His successor was took office without incident on the first day of 2023.

But a following week, on 8 January, many Bolsonaro supporters stormed and vandalised government buildings in the federal district, Brasília.

The security forces stepped in and around 1,500 people were taken into custody.

The justices found that the rioters had been incited by the former president whose plan, they said, was for the national armed forces to step in, bring back stability and bring him back to power.

At the period, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the over 27-year sentence "absurdly excessive.

He was also banned from campaigning for office until 2060 - eight years after the end of his sentence.

The former president called the legal proceedings a political persecution and said it was intended to stop him competing in the 2026 presidential election.