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

The ex-president was found guilty of orchestrating a military coup in the ninth month and handed more than 27 years in incarceration, but he remained under confinement pending legal challenges.

Top Judicial Official the presiding justice said the action to imprison the 70-year-old politician was a safety action after fresh information emerged.

This involved seeking to disable his tracking device and a call for a demonstration that could "allow for a possible escape.

Judicial Records Show Escape Risks

In a filing authorising the custody, the magistrate said data from the unit overseeing Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the former leader's aim to disable the surveillance device to ensure success in his escape.

This, it said, would be assisted by the disorder caused by the gathering called by his son.

His son, his son Flávio, who works as a legislator, called for a assembly of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on the weekend.

The senator wrote on digital networks on last Friday: Will you battle for your nation, or see it all from your smartphone there on your settee? I call on you to fight with us."

He said the vigil would be so followers could offer prayers for his health and for the return of democracy in our nation."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of Justice Moraes's ruling was the possibility of the former president's transfer to diplomatic missions near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a record of organizing to ask for protection through a embassy office", a statement said.

The judicial paperwork underscores that the US embassy in the national capital, Brazil's capital, is located around 8 miles from Bolsonaro's home.

Global Responses

Bolsonaro's legal woes have generated frustration from fellow right-wing populist US President President Trump, leading him to enact a fifty percent tax on imports of Brazilian goods.

The former president is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in Brazil's capital city and will have a custody hearing on the following day.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on last Friday that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the High Court to authorize him to fulfill his full incarceration period under home confinement, with tracking devices.

They also requested that he be authorized to depart his residence for medical care, saying he needed regular treatment for pulmonary infections and other health problems.

Background on Conviction

He was determined responsible of leading a plot aimed at keeping him in power after he was defeated in the presidential race to his left-wing rival, President Lula.

Top judicial officials said that he was aware of a plan which involved plans to murder his opponent and his vice-presidential running mate, Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Justice Moraes - the High Court judge who has been presiding over Bolsonaro's trial.

The plot was prevented because it didn't receive the support of the armed forces officials. Lula was took office without issue on January 1st, 2023.

But a following week, on the eighth of January, thousands of his followers invaded and destroyed public facilities in the national capital, Brazil's capital.

The security forces intervened and around 1,500 people were taken into custody.

The justices found that the protesters had been incited by Bolsonaro whose plan, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, bring back stability and return him to office.

At the moment, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence "absurdly excessive.

He was also banned from campaigning for office until 2060 - eight years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.

The former president called the trial a "witch hunt and said it was aimed at blocking him running in the next presidential race.