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Jair Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities found he posed a concrete flight risk while under domestic detention.

The former head of state was sentenced of orchestrating a government overthrow in the ninth month and sentenced more than over two decades in prison, but he was staying under house arrest pending appeals.

High Court Judge Justice Moraes said the action to imprison the elderly politician was a preventative measure after "new facts" came to light.

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

Court Filing Details Escape Concerns

In a paperwork permitting the arrest, the judge said intelligence from the facility tracking the former president's confinement suggested the one-time head of state's plan to remove the tracking monitor to ensure success in his flight.

This, it said, would be assisted by the disorder caused by the protest called by his child.

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

His son wrote on online platforms on last Friday: Will you battle for your country, or observe everything from your smartphone there on your settee? I invite you to struggle with us."

He said the vigil would be so supporters could "pray for his physical condition and for the return of democracy in our nation."

Embassy Asylum Concerns

Part of the judge's ruling was the potential of Bolsonaro's move to foreign missions near the residence, considering that the inquiries revealed a background of organizing to seek refuge through a embassy office", a announcement said.

The judicial paperwork highlights that the American diplomatic mission in the federal district, the capital city, is located around 8 miles from the former president's residence.

Worldwide Consequences

The former president's legal troubles have generated frustration from fellow right-wing populist United States President Donald Trump, leading him to implement a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.

The former president is being detained in a Federal Police station in Brazil's capital city and will experience a imprisonment assessment on the following day.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on the previous day that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to authorize him to fulfill his full incarceration period under house arrest, with tracking devices.

They also requested that the former president be permitted to leave his home for medical care, saying he needed frequent medical attention for lung conditions and other health problems.

Details of Guilty Verdict

He was convicted of leading a scheme aimed at keeping him in power after he was defeated in the national vote to his ideological adversary, Lula.

High Court judges said that he was aware of a scheme which included plans to assassinate his opponent and his running partner, Geraldo Alckmin, and to imprison and murder the presiding judge - the top judicial official who has been managing Bolsonaro's trial.

The conspiracy was stopped because it couldn't obtain the support of the army and air force commanders. Lula was inaugurated without issue on January 1st, 2023.

But a seven days after, on the eighth of January, numerous Bolsonaro supporters invaded and destroyed public facilities in the national capital, Brasília.

The law enforcement intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.

The justices found that the protesters had been provoked by Bolsonaro whose scheme, they said, was for the country's army to take action, bring back stability and reinstate his authority.

At the moment, the legal team called the 27 years and three months sentence unreasonably severe".

He was also barred from campaigning for office until 2060 - a decade minus two years after the completion of his term.

The one-time head of state called the court case a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him running in the next presidential race.