Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was taken into preventive custody by police in the capital city, Brasilia, under an order issued by the Federal Supreme Court. According to the Federal Police, the arrest was not the result of a sentence, but a precautionary measure requested by investigators. Bolsonaro was detained yesterday and immediately taken to the Federal Police headquarters in Brasilia. The detention comes in the final phase of an investigation into an alleged coup plot in the country. Bolsonaro, who was in power from 2019 to 2022, had been under house arrest since August 4 and had his preventive detention ordered on grounds of safeguarding public order. As part of that process, he had been sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison.