Protesters in Belarus organized a march in Minsk that held an attendance of more than 100,000 people to precede other demonstrations later in the day. The march was held between 10 A.M. and 3 P.M., moving like water so that the police could not capture protesters. Few arrests were recorded during the march, and secret police were repulsed.
Dozens of protesters took to the streets in the northeastern city of Xanthi, participating in a march decrying the police state established in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic, instead calling for methods of controlling the virus without brutal lockdown measures.
Youth in Palestine clashed with the Israeli Defense Forces that were moving through the village of Jaba’a, throwing Molotov cocktails and keeping up resistance for hours as the military passed the area.
Protesters rioted all across West Philadelphia after the police shooting of a mentally ill man earlier in the day, with over 30 police officers injured and 91 demonstrators arrested. Many areas in the city experienced heavy-handed clashes between protesters and riot police, with cars driving through crowds in some areas. Several police cruisers were captured and burnt.
Greek anarchists in the eastern Athens suburb of Zografou dropped a banner at the Athens Polytechnic University in solidarity with the 25-year-old Klodian Rasha, whose murder on the 8th of December in Albania sparked massive riots for days in the capital.
