A four-judge panel of Brazil's Supreme Court voted unanimously on Monday to keep former President Jair Bolsonaro in police custody after Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered his detention on Saturday citing a flight risk.

Jair Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after being determined a "concrete flight risk" while under house arrest. The right-wing former Brazilian president was found guilty of plotting a military coup in September and sentenced to more than 27 years in prison, but remains under house arrest pending appeals.

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was taken into federal police custody on Saturday before a planned supporters' vigil near his home, ending months of house arrest as he appealed a Supreme Court conviction for plotting a coup.

Former President Jair Bolsonaro was arrested on Saturday after authorities said he took a soldering iron to his ankle monitor.

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Thousands of revelers descended on the boardwalk in Copacabana for Rio de Janeiro’s annual Pride parade on Sunday, with many celebrating the previous day's preemptive jailing of Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro who is notorious for homophobic remarks.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Sunday he had medicine-induced "paranoia" that led him to violate his electronic ankle monitor, a document seen by Reuters showed, one day after the federal police took him into custody as a potential flight risk.

With Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro preparing to serve a 27-year sentence for attempting a coup, many families who lost loved ones to COVID-19 say the conviction offers a measure of vindication even though it is unrelated to his handling of the pandemic.