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Jair Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities found he posed a definite escape threat while under domestic detention.

The one-time leader was sentenced of plotting a armed takeover in the ninth month and sentenced more than a 27-year term in jail, but he remained under house arrest pending court reviews.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice the presiding justice said the decision to arrest the septuagenarian politician was a preventative measure after fresh information were revealed.

This encompassed trying to remove his tracking device and a summons to a demonstration that could facilitate a possible escape.

Legal Document Reveals Escape Risks

In a document approving the arrest, the magistrate said data from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the one-time head of state's plan to remove the tracking monitor to ensure success in his getaway".

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

His offspring, Flávio Bolsonaro, who holds office as a congressional representative, called for a assembly of his backers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday night.

The senator wrote on online platforms on Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your homeland, or observe everything from your phone there on your settee? I urge you to fight with us."

He said the gathering would be so followers could "pray for his well-being and for the restoration of democratic rule in our nation."

Diplomatic Refuge Fears

Part of Justice Moraes's ruling was the potential of the former president's "relocation to foreign missions near the home, considering that the probes revealed a record of planning to request asylum through a consular facility", a announcement said.

The judicial paperwork highlights that the United States embassy in the federal district, the capital city, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from Bolsonaro's home.

Global Responses

His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow conservative nationalist American leader Trump, causing him to implement a 50% tariff 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 next day.

Recent Judicial Appeals

It was only on last Friday that the his legal team asked the High Court to allow him to serve his whole jail sentence under domestic detention, with digital surveillance.

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

Details of Guilty Verdict

He was convicted of leading a conspiracy aimed at retaining his authority after he failed to win the presidential race to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

High Court judges said that he was aware of a plot which included plans to murder his opponent and his vice-presidential running mate, Alckmin, and to arrest and execute Alexandre de Moraes - the High Court judge who has been managing Bolsonaro's trial.

The conspiracy was stopped because it didn't receive the backing of the armed forces officials. His successor was sworn in without problem on January 1st, 2023.

But a seven days after, on 8 January, many his backers stormed and vandalised government buildings in the capital, Brazil's capital.

The law enforcement intervened and around 1,500 people were arrested.

The magistrates found that the protesters had been encouraged by him whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to intervene, restore order and bring him back to power.

At the time, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the decades-long sentence "absurdly excessive.

He was also barred from campaigning for office until 2060 - eight years after the completion of his term.

The former president called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was designed to prevent him running in the 2026 presidential election.