Around 1,500 Brazilians Arrested after Storming Capital

Those arrested supported former President Jair Bolsonaro who, like the former US President Donald Trump, pushed a narrative of electoral fraud for months without evidence, SBS News reported.

Security forces have detained around 1500 people following the storming of government buildings in Brasília, and dismantled a camp of supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro in the capital, Brazilian officials have confirmed.

After thousands of Bolsonaro's backers attacked Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace on Sunday local time, police in riot gear amassed at the pro-Bolsonaro camp outside Brasília's army headquarters while troops took down tents, Reuters witnesses said. The protesters were dispersed.