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Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after authorities determined he posed a serious risk of fleeing while under home confinement.

The one-time leader was convicted of planning a armed takeover in September and sentenced more than over two decades in prison, but he remained under home detention pending court reviews.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice the presiding justice said the action to imprison the elderly politician was a safety action after "new facts" came to light.

This encompassed attempting to break his ankle monitor and a invitation to a supporters' gathering that could facilitate a potential flight.

Court Filing Details Escape Concerns

In a paperwork permitting the custody, the judge said data from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the ex-president's plan to remove the tracking monitor to secure accomplishment in his getaway".

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

His offspring, his son Flávio, who holds office as a congressional representative, called for a meeting of his followers near the former president's residence to take place on the weekend.

The senator wrote on digital networks on the previous day: Do you plan to struggle for your country, or watch it all from your smartphone there on your settee? I urge you to struggle with us."

He said the gathering would be so supporters could seek divine intervention for his well-being and for the restoration of democratic rule in our land."

Foreign Shelter Risks

Part of the magistrate's ruling was the potential of the former president's move to embassies near the residence, considering that the inquiries revealed a history of organizing to ask for protection through a embassy office", a declaration said.

The legal document underscores that the US embassy in the capital, the capital city, is located around 8 miles from his dwelling.

International Reactions

His judicial problems have provoked anger from fellow populist conservative American leader Trump, leading him to impose a fifty percent tax on Brazilian product imports.

He 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 the previous day that the former president's lawyers asked the High Court to permit him to fulfill his full incarceration period under domestic detention, with electronic monitoring.

They also petitioned that Bolsonaro be permitted to exit his dwelling for medical care, saying he needed ongoing care for lung conditions and other ailments.

Context of Sentencing

Bolsonaro was found guilty of orchestrating a plot aimed at maintaining his control after he failed to win the national vote to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Top judicial officials said that he knew of a scheme which encompassed plans to assassinate Lula and his running partner, Geraldo Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Justice Moraes - the High Court judge who has been overseeing Bolsonaro's trial.

The scheme was thwarted because it failed to get the support of the armed forces officials. His successor was sworn in without problem on the first day of 2023.

But a week later, on January 8th, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters stormed and vandalised government buildings in the federal district, Brasília.

The security forces took action and around approximately 1,500 persons were detained.

The judges found that the demonstrators had been provoked by the former president whose scheme, they said, was for the country's army to intervene, restore order and bring him back to power.

At the moment, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the decades-long sentence extremely harsh.

He was also prohibited from seeking elected position until the year 2060 - eight years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.

The ex-leader called the legal proceedings a political persecution and said it was designed to prevent him running in the 2026 national vote.