Is flag burning illegal in Brazil?
Criminal offense
Desecrating the national flag is a criminal offense punishable by fines or imprisonment.
Brazil is one of 55 countries classified “Criminal offense” for flag desecration — 82% of the 67 with data. (Also searched as flag burning.)
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Flag desecration
- Last checked
- 17 September 2026
- How it was classified
- Classified by a language model from the source text, then checked against hand-verified reference countries.
Nearby countries
- Suriname
- Criminal offense Desecrating the Surinamese flag is a criminal offense punishable by imprisonment.
- Uruguay
- Only foreign flags protected Desecration of foreign flags is punished, but there is no restriction on desecrating the Uruguayan national flag.
- Curaçao
- Criminal offense Desecrating the national flag is a criminal offense punishable by prison or a fine.
- Aruba
- Criminal offense Defiling or burning the flag is punishable by imprisonment or a fine.
- Argentina
- Criminal offense Public desecration of the national flag is a crime in Argentina.
- Chile
- Criminal offense Public desecration of the national flag is a crime in Chile.
Other laws in Brazil
- Blasphemy Laws
- Criminal offense
- Holocaust Denial
- No specific law
- Conversion Therapy
- Partial ban
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