Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities found he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under domestic detention.
The ex-president was found guilty of planning a government overthrow in September and given more than 27 years in jail, but he remained under confinement pending court reviews.
High Court Judge the presiding justice said the action to imprison the elderly politician was a safety action after fresh information were revealed.
This encompassed attempting to break his ankle monitor and a summons to a supporters' gathering that could facilitate a chance to flee".
Judicial Records Show Escape Concerns
In a paperwork permitting the detention, the judge said data from the centre monitoring his home detention suggested the former leader's "intention to break the surveillance device to secure accomplishment in his getaway".
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the disorder caused by the protest called by his child.
His son, Flávio Bolsonaro, who holds office as a congressional representative, called for a assembly of his followers near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday night.
His son wrote on online platforms on last Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your country, or see it all from your smartphone there on your sofa? I urge you to battle with us."
He said the vigil would be so followers could offer prayers for his health and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our land."
Diplomatic Refuge Fears
Part of the judge's decision was the possibility of the former president's move to embassies near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a history of organizing to seek refuge through a embassy office", a statement said.
The court filing emphasizes that the US embassy in the federal district, the capital city, is positioned around 13km from his dwelling.
International Reactions
His judicial problems have drawn the ire of fellow right-wing populist US President President Trump, leading him to impose a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.
Bolsonaro is being held in a federal law enforcement building in Brazil's capital city and will experience a detention review on the next day.
Latest Court Petitions
It was only on the previous day that the former president's lawyers asked the High Court to allow him to complete his entire prison term under house arrest, with digital surveillance.
They also requested that the former president be permitted to exit his dwelling for medical care, saying he required ongoing care for pulmonary infections and other ailments.
Background on Conviction
The former president was convicted of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he failed to win the national vote to his ideological adversary, Lula.
Top judicial officials said that he had knowledge of a plan which included plans to assassinate Lula and his VP candidate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to arrest and execute Alexandre de Moraes - the High Court judge who has been overseeing his judicial proceedings.
The conspiracy was prevented because it couldn't obtain the support of the armed forces officials. The current president was inaugurated without issue on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on the eighth of January, numerous his backers invaded and destroyed government buildings in the national capital, the capital city.
The police intervened and around fifteen hundred individuals were arrested.
The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been provoked by the former president whose scheme, they said, was for the national armed forces to take action, restore order and bring him back to power.
At the moment, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also prohibited from running for public office until twenty-sixty - eight years after the end of his sentence.
The one-time head of state called the legal proceedings a targeted investigation" and said it was intended to stop him running in the 2026 presidential election.
