The ruling comes a month after Brazil’s top court ordered the former president to wear an ankle monitor, submit to a curfew and abide by limitations on his activity as legal proceedings investigating an alleged coup plot continue.

Jair Bolsonaro was ordered into house arrest Monday by a Brazilian Supreme Court justice who said the former president had violated a social media ban for the second time while awaiting trial on an alleged coup attempt.

SÃO PAULO—Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro be put under house arrest, as the country’s top justices weigh evidence that he plotted a military takeover in 2022.