BRAZIL: Riot police clear protesting students

More than 300 Brazilian riot police forcibly cleared a university building that protesting students occupied for a week, arresting about 70 people last week. Police used battering rams to smash down doors in the dawn raid as a helicopter buzzed overhead. Officials said the students, mostly asleep when police arrived, did not resist arrest, reports Associated Press.

The students invaded the building on 1 November to protest police patrols on the campus of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil's most elite school. A judge had ordered them to leave the building by late Monday, but the group refused. The protest was sparked by the arrest late last month of three students for marijuana possession, which ended in a violent clash between hundreds of students and police.
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