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The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities concluded he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under home confinement.

The former head of state was sentenced of plotting a armed takeover in September and given more than over two decades in jail, but he continued under home detention pending appeals.

High Court Judge Justice Moraes said the move to detain the 70-year-old politician was a precautionary step after "new facts" were revealed.

This encompassed seeking to disable his tracking device and a call for a supporters' gathering that could "allow for a potential flight.

Court Filing Details Escape Risks

In a paperwork permitting the arrest, the judge said data from the unit overseeing Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the one-time head of state's aim to disable the surveillance device to ensure success in his escape.

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

His son, his son Flávio, who works as a legislator, called for a meeting of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on the weekend.

The senator wrote on online platforms on last Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your country, or see it all from your phone there on your couch? I call on you to fight with us."

He said the demonstration would be so followers could seek divine intervention for his physical condition and for the restoration of democratic rule in our nation."

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of Justice Moraes's decision was the potential of Bolsonaro's move to foreign missions near the home, considering that the inquiries revealed a record of planning to seek refuge through a embassy office", a statement said.

The legal document underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the national capital, the capital city, is located around approximately 13 kilometers from his dwelling.

International Reactions

The former president's legal troubles have generated frustration from fellow populist conservative United States President Donald Trump, causing him to implement a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.

Bolsonaro is being detained in a federal law enforcement building in Brazil's capital city and will have a imprisonment assessment on the next day.

Recent Legal Requests

It was only on Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Supreme Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under house arrest, with digital surveillance.

They also petitioned that he be permitted to depart his residence for medical care, saying he required regular treatment for respiratory ailments and other illnesses.

Details of Guilty Verdict

He was found guilty of leading a scheme aimed at maintaining his control after he lost the national vote to his political opponent, Lula.

Supreme Court justices said that he had knowledge of a plot which involved plans to assassinate his opponent and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill Alexandre de Moraes - the High Court judge who has been managing Bolsonaro's trial.

The conspiracy was thwarted because it failed to get the backing of the armed forces officials. His successor was sworn in without problem on the first day of 2023.

But a following week, on the eighth of January, many his backers stormed and vandalised official structures in the capital, the capital city.

The security forces took action and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.

The judges found that the rioters had been incited by him whose scheme, they said, was for the country's army to take action, restore order and reinstate his authority.

At the period, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the 27 years and three months sentence "absurdly excessive.

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

The former president called the court case a political persecution and said it was aimed at blocking him running in the next presidential race.