BRASILIA: Brazil’s Supreme Court on Monday voted to uphold the imprisonment of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who was detained over the weekend for tampering with his ankle monitor using a soldering iron. Bolsonaro was taken into custody on Saturday from his home where he had been under house arrest after a judge declared him a flight risk as he appeals a 27-year sentence for plotting a failed coup.

BRASILIA: Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was taken into federal police custody on Saturday, his lawyer told Reuters, ending months of house arrest as he appealed a…

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was taken into federal police custody on Saturday before a planned supporters' vigil near his home.

The former Brazilian president is suspected of damaging an ankle bracelet as part of an alleged escape plan.

The 70-year-old politician was taken to the headquarters of the country's federal police in the capital, Brasilia, from his house arrest.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was detained in Brasilia because of a possible "attempted escape" to an embassy before he was to begin his prison sentence.

Brazil's ex-president, convicted of foiled coup, is under arrest after taking a soldering iron to the monitoring device.

Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the former Brazilian president's preemptive jailing because he is considered a flight risk.

Four justices voted to keep the former right-wing president in police custody after his ankle monitor was damaged.

BRASILIA: Brazil’s Supreme Court on Monday voted to uphold the imprisonment of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who was detained over the weekend for tampering with his ankle…

The ex-president was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for trying to foment a coup after his election loss.

Prosecutors charged Bolsonaro with plotting to violently subvert Brazil's democracy and target rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva