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

The one-time leader was sentenced of orchestrating a military coup in September and given more than over two decades in incarceration, but he remained under confinement pending appeals.

High Court Judge the presiding justice said the action to imprison the septuagenarian politician was a precautionary step after recent developments were revealed.

This encompassed attempting to break his tracking device and a summons to a supporters' gathering that could facilitate a potential flight.

Court Filing Details Escape Risks

In a document approving the custody, the judge said data from the centre monitoring the former president's confinement suggested the former leader's plan to remove the electronic ankle bracelet to ensure success in his getaway".

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

His child, Flávio, who holds office as a congressional representative, called for a meeting of his supporters near the former president's residence to take place on Saturday evening.

His son wrote on social media on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your homeland, or observe everything from your phone there on your sofa? I invite you to fight with us."

He said the vigil would be so backers could seek divine intervention for his health and for the return of democracy in our nation."

Diplomatic Refuge Fears

Part of Justice Moraes's determination was the chance of Bolsonaro's move to diplomatic missions near the residence, considering that the inquiries revealed a record of organizing to request asylum through a consular facility", a announcement said.

The legal document highlights that the United States embassy in the national capital, Brazil's capital, is situated around 8 miles from Bolsonaro's home.

Global Responses

His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow right-wing populist US President Donald Trump, prompting him to impose a half-rate duty on Brazilian product imports.

The former president is being kept in a national police facility in Brazil's capital city and will have a imprisonment assessment on the following day.

Recent Judicial Appeals

It was only on last Friday that the his legal team asked the Top Court to allow him to complete his entire prison term under house arrest, with tracking devices.

They also asked that he be permitted to depart his residence for medical care, saying he demanded regular treatment for pulmonary infections and other health problems.

Background on Conviction

He was convicted of orchestrating a scheme aimed at retaining his authority after he lost the presidential race to his political opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

High Court judges said that he had knowledge of a scheme which involved plans to murder the current president and his VP candidate, Alckmin, and to arrest and execute Justice Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been presiding over Bolsonaro's trial.

The plot was stopped because it failed to get the support of the army and air force commanders. Lula was sworn in without incident on 1 January 2023.

But a following week, on the eighth of January, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters attacked and damaged government buildings in the capital, Brasília.

The police stepped in and around fifteen hundred individuals were detained.

The justices found that the demonstrators had been incited by him whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to take action, restore order and return him to office.

At the moment, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the 27 years and three months sentence extremely harsh.

He was also barred from running for public office until twenty-sixty - eight years later after the end of his sentence.

The ex-leader called the trial a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him running in the next presidential race.