The former Brazilian leader has been arrested after authorities concluded he posed a concrete flight risk while under house arrest.
The ex-president was sentenced of planning a government overthrow in the ninth month and handed more than a 27-year term in prison, but he remained under house arrest pending court reviews.
Top Judicial Official Justice Moraes said the move to detain the 70-year-old politician was a precautionary step after "new facts" emerged.
This involved attempting to break his electronic bracelet and a summons to a supporters' gathering that could enable a possible escape.
Court Filing Details Flight Fears
In a paperwork permitting the custody, the judge said intelligence from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the ex-president's plan to remove the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his flight.
This, it said, would be assisted by the chaos caused by the protest called by his child.
His son, Flávio, who serves as a legislator, called for a meeting of his followers near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday night.
The senator wrote on digital networks on Friday: "Are you going to fight for your nation, or watch it all from your mobile device there on your settee? I urge you to battle with us."
He said the gathering would be so followers could "pray for his health and for the return of democracy in our land."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of Justice Moraes's decision was the possibility of Bolsonaro's transfer to embassies near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a record of organizing to seek refuge through a embassy office", a statement said.
The judicial paperwork highlights that the United States embassy in the capital, Brazil's capital, is positioned around approximately 13 kilometers from the former president's residence.
Global Responses
Bolsonaro's legal woes have generated frustration from fellow right-wing populist US President President Trump, prompting him to impose a half-rate duty on imports of Brazilian goods.
He is being detained in a Federal Police station in Brazil's capital city and will have a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to permit him to serve his whole jail sentence under house arrest, with digital surveillance.
They also requested that Bolsonaro be permitted to depart his residence for medical treatment, saying he needed ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other health problems.
Details of Guilty Verdict
The former president was found guilty of heading a scheme aimed at retaining his authority after he failed to win the national vote to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Top judicial officials said that he knew of a scheme which involved plans to assassinate his opponent and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to arrest and execute the presiding judge - the Supreme Court justice who has been presiding over his judicial proceedings.
The scheme was stopped because it didn't receive the support of the armed forces officials. His successor was inaugurated without problem on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on the eighth of January, numerous Bolsonaro supporters stormed and vandalised official structures in the federal district, Brazil's capital.
The police intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.
The magistrates found that the protesters had been encouraged by him whose plan, they said, was for the national armed forces to take action, restore order and reinstate his authority.
At the time, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the 27 years and three months sentence extremely harsh.
He was also banned from seeking elected position until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the completion of his term.
The former president called the legal proceedings a political persecution and said it was aimed at blocking him competing in the next presidential race.
