Not only has the Brazilian government enacted liberty violating and over reaching “anti terrorism” laws to affect protestors, but they have been actively prosecuting and demonizing any Brazilians resisting FIFA’s 2014 World Cup. Even more disturbing is the announcement made by Sao Paulo police today that they will be seeking to pre-arrest activists before the start of the cup.

The Secretary of Public Security of São Paulo, Fernando Grella, told Reuters that police are preparing possible criminal charges against a small number of leaders of the protesters, who, he said, are conspiring to “commit acts of violence, break, vandalize, assaulting people.”

It’s unclear whether the courts will allow such a violation of liberty and law, but the perpetrators of the initiative and their lawyers seem hopeful that they will make some preventative arrests. It will be tricky for them to try to charge unorganized groups with “conspiracy” charges, so naturally the state will have to frame people and create false scenarios of conspiracy between activists.

At least three political prisoners have been stuck with trumped up charges in Rio already.