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Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities determined he posed a concrete flight risk while under home confinement.

The one-time leader was convicted of orchestrating a armed takeover in September and sentenced more than over two decades in prison, but he remained under house arrest pending legal challenges.

High Court Judge the presiding justice said the move to detain the septuagenarian politician was a safety action after fresh information emerged.

This encompassed seeking to disable his tracking device and a call for a public vigil that could facilitate a possible escape.

Court Filing Details Flight Fears

In a paperwork permitting the arrest, the judge said data from the centre monitoring the former president's confinement suggested the one-time head of state's plan to remove the tracking monitor to guarantee victory in his flight.

This, it said, would be assisted by the confusion caused by the protest called by his child.

His offspring, his son Flávio, who serves as a legislator, called for a meeting of his supporters near his father's house to take place on Saturday evening.

His son wrote on digital networks on the previous day: "Are you going to fight for your homeland, or observe everything from your mobile device there on your couch? I call on you to battle with us."

He said the demonstration would be so backers could "pray for his health and for the reestablishment of democratic governance in our land."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of the magistrate's determination was the chance of the former president's transfer to embassies near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a background of arranging to seek refuge through a consular facility", a declaration said.

The legal document underscores that the American diplomatic mission in the capital, the capital city, is located around 8 miles from the former president's residence.

Worldwide Consequences

Bolsonaro's legal woes have drawn the ire of fellow right-wing populist United States President President Trump, leading him to enact a fifty percent tax on goods coming from Brazil.

Bolsonaro is being kept in a national police facility in Brasilia and will undergo a custody hearing on Sunday.

Latest Court Petitions

It was only on Friday that the former president's lawyers asked the Supreme Court to permit him to serve his whole jail sentence under house arrest, with digital surveillance.

They also requested that he be allowed to depart his residence for medical care, saying he required ongoing care for lung conditions and other illnesses.

Context of Sentencing

He was found guilty of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he failed to win the national vote to his political opponent, Lula.

High Court judges said that he was aware of a scheme which involved plans to assassinate Lula and his VP candidate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill Justice Moraes - the Supreme Court justice who has been managing the former president's case.

The conspiracy was stopped because it couldn't obtain the support of the armed forces officials. His successor was sworn in without incident on January 1st, 2023.

But a seven days after, on January 8th, thousands of his backers attacked and damaged public facilities in the federal district, Brasília.

The security forces took action and around fifteen hundred individuals were taken into custody.

The judges found that the protesters had been incited by him whose strategy, they said, was for the country's army to take action, restore order and bring him back to power.

At the time, the legal team called the over 27-year sentence unreasonably severe".

He was also barred from campaigning for office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.

The former president called the court case a political persecution and said it was aimed at blocking him running in the 2026 presidential election.