Brasília - A recently inaugurated pavilion at the Papuda Prison (Presídio da Papuda) here in Brasilia is the new residence of 500 protesters from the Movement for the Liberation of the Landless (Movimento de Libertação dos Sem Terra) (MSLT) who invaded the Congress building on Tuesday.

In the prison the MLST members have been separated according to sex and are being kept apart from other inmates. Twelve of the MLST members, who are classified as leaders, have been isolated from the others "to make sure they do not try to start some kind of an uprising," says Athos Costa de Faria, the Distrito Federal secretary of Security.

Meanwhile, the official website of the Chamber of Deputies is showing a video tape of an MLST meeting in which the invasion of the Congress building was planned.

Translation: Allen Bennett