Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities determined he posed a concrete flight risk while under domestic detention.
The ex-president was convicted of planning a military coup in the ninth month and sentenced more than 27 years in prison, but he remained under home detention pending legal challenges.
Top Judicial Official Justice Moraes said the action to imprison the elderly politician was a precautionary step after "new facts" were revealed.
This involved seeking to disable his tracking device and a summons to a demonstration that could facilitate a possible escape.
Court Filing Details Escape Risks
In a paperwork permitting the detention, the judge said data from the facility tracking Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the former leader's aim to disable the tracking monitor to ensure success in his escape.
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the disorder caused by the gathering called by his offspring.
His offspring, Flávio, who works as a congressional representative, called for a meeting of his supporters near his father's house to take place on the weekend.
His son wrote on online platforms on Friday: Do you plan to struggle for your homeland, or watch it all from your phone there on your couch? I call on you to battle with us."
He said the gathering would be so supporters could offer prayers for his health and for the return of democracy in our nation."
Embassy Asylum Concerns
Part of Justice Moraes's decision was the potential of his transfer to foreign missions near the dwelling, considering that the investigations revealed a record of arranging to request asylum through a embassy office", a declaration said.
The court filing highlights that the United States embassy in the federal district, Brasilia, is positioned around 13km from his dwelling.
Worldwide Consequences
Bolsonaro's legal woes have generated frustration from fellow conservative nationalist American leader Donald Trump, leading him to impose a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.
Bolsonaro is being held in a federal law enforcement building in the capital and will experience a imprisonment assessment on the following day.
Recent Judicial Appeals
It was only on the previous day that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under home confinement, with electronic monitoring.
They also petitioned that the former president be permitted to leave his home for healthcare, saying he required frequent medical attention for respiratory ailments and other ailments.
Details of Guilty Verdict
Bolsonaro was convicted of orchestrating a conspiracy aimed at maintaining his control after he was defeated in the national vote to his political opponent, Lula.
Top judicial officials said that he had knowledge of a scheme which included plans to murder his opponent and his VP candidate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to arrest and execute the presiding judge - the High Court judge who has been overseeing his judicial proceedings.
The plot was stopped because it didn't receive the backing of the armed forces officials. Lula was sworn in without incident on January 1st, 2023.
But a following week, on January 8th, many his followers stormed and vandalised government buildings in the capital, Brazil's capital.
The law enforcement took action and around approximately 1,500 persons were arrested.
The magistrates found that the demonstrators had been incited by Bolsonaro whose strategy, they said, was for the Brazilian military to step in, reestablish control and reinstate his authority.
At the moment, the legal team called the decades-long sentence "absurdly excessive.
He was also banned from running for public office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the completion of his term.
The one-time head of state called the legal proceedings a targeted investigation" and said it was intended to stop him running in the next presidential race.
