Brazil: among the protesters arrested in Brasilia, 34 are elderly

In Brasília, 34 elderly demonstrators are in jail because of the January 8 protests.

This Wednesday, it’s been one month since the arrests began.

Of the elderly prisoners, five are over 70 years old, and ten are women.

In most cases, they are far from home.

Only two reside in Brasilia – the rest come from states from North to South of Brazil.

Almost 1,000 Brazilians are still detained.

On average, the prisoners are 45 years old – 44 for men and 47 for women.

Among the demonstrators still imprisoned in Brasilia, a man from the state of São Paulo about to turn 75 has the oldest age.

The youngest is a boy from Alagoas, who turned 18 seven months before the January protests.

For women, the range is from 20 to 70.

The information is part of a survey by Oeste of the most recent official lists with the names of citizens who remain in detention.

The Federal District’s Secretariat of Public Security published the documents on Wednesday.

The District Government cites exactly 916 inmates.

There are 611 men in Provisional Detention Center II and 305 women in the Women’s Penitentiary.

All in the Papuda complex.

Only 35 prisoners are from the Federal District.

The rest come from almost every state in Brazil. Only Amapá was left off the list.

From the Northern states, for example, there are 64 prisoners.

Another 115 are from the Northeast, 168 from the Midwest, 206 from the South, and 363 from the Southeast.

Furthermore, of the prisoners that have been released, 460 are wearing electronic anklets.

This list also has citizens from the North to the South of Brazil of the most varied ages.

Of these, the youngest is a protester who turned 18 two weeks before his arrest.

With information from Revista Oeste