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Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities concluded he posed a concrete flight risk while under house arrest.

The one-time leader was sentenced of orchestrating a government overthrow in last fall and sentenced more than over two decades in jail, but he continued under house arrest pending legal challenges.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Justice Moraes said the action to imprison the 70-year-old politician was a preventative measure after fresh information were revealed.

This encompassed attempting to break his electronic bracelet and a summons to a public vigil that could facilitate a possible escape.

Judicial Records Show Escape Risks

In a filing authorising the detention, the judge said data from the centre monitoring the former president's confinement suggested the ex-president's aim to disable the electronic ankle bracelet to guarantee victory in his getaway".

This, it said, would be made easier by the confusion caused by the demonstration called by his offspring.

His son, Flávio Bolsonaro, who works as a congressional representative, called for a meeting of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday night.

His son wrote on social media on Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your homeland, or watch it all from your mobile device there on your couch? I invite you to battle with us."

He said the vigil would be so followers could offer prayers for his well-being and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our country."

Diplomatic Refuge Fears

Part of the magistrate's ruling was the possibility of the former president's move to foreign missions near the home, considering that the probes revealed a history of planning to ask for protection through a diplomatic representation", a announcement said.

The judicial paperwork emphasizes that the US embassy in the national capital, Brasilia, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from Bolsonaro's home.

Global Responses

His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow populist conservative United States President President Trump, causing him to impose a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.

The former president is being kept in a Federal Police station in the capital and will undergo a detention review on Sunday.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the High Court to allow him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.

They also requested that he be allowed to leave his home for medical care, saying he needed regular treatment for respiratory ailments and other health problems.

Background on Conviction

He was convicted of heading a conspiracy aimed at retaining his authority after he lost the national vote to his ideological adversary, President Lula.

High Court judges said that he knew of a scheme which included plans to assassinate the current president and his vice-presidential running mate, his vice-presidential candidate, and to imprison and murder Justice Moraes - the High Court judge who has been overseeing the former president's case.

The plot was stopped because it didn't receive the backing of the armed forces officials. Lula was sworn in without issue on the first day of 2023.

But a seven days after, on the eighth of January, thousands of his followers attacked and damaged government buildings in the federal district, Brazil's capital.

The security forces took action and around approximately 1,500 persons were detained.

The magistrates found that the protesters had been encouraged by him whose scheme, they said, was for the country's army to take action, bring back stability and return him to office.

At the period, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the over 27-year sentence extremely harsh.

He was also banned from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.

The ex-leader called the trial a political persecution and said it was designed to prevent him competing in the 2026 national vote.