The US federal judiciary has indicted more than 150 people for their involvement in the violence at the Washington Capitol on January 6, it was announced on Tuesday.
Another 50 people have been charged in local courts in the US capital, federal prosecutor Michael Sherwin told reporters.
Those numbers are expected to increase because investigators who are still working have gathered information about about 400 participants in the riot, which is also called an attempted coup because the goal of the attack by supporters of the former US president, Donald Trump, is on Congress - the US parliament. or preventing the confirmation of the election of the new head of state, Joseph Biden.
To speed up proceedings, courts first confirmed simple indictments, such as trespassing or illegal carrying of weapons, but some charges, including violence against police officers, were added to some files, and some defendants face up to 20 years in prison, Shervin said.
During the attack on the US Congress, five people lost their lives, including a policeman who was killed by protesters, and a female protester who was killed by a policeman.
Homemade bombs were found near the Capitol, and at the offices of the Democratic and Republican parties.
Former President Trump has been sent to trial in the Senate, the upper house of Congress, which will try him in February for "incitement to sedition".
For weeks, Trump denied his defeat in the November presidential election, despite all the evidence presenting himself as the victim of a massive "fraud". Just before the attack on the US Congress, he addressed his supporters gathered at the White House, asking them to show their "strength", and soon there were bloody riots.
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