Barricades went up across Beirut in solidarity with the families of victims of the August explosion, demanding justice for the corrupt officials responsible for the mismanagement of the facility whose collapse caused 158 deaths and over 7000 injuries.
Daily Archives: February 22, 2021
Dozens of students in Ioannina marched against police repression seen at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, demanding the repeal of a law put forward by Minister of Education Niki Kerameos which allowed police to return to universities for the first time since 1975.
Police in Greece attacked students occupying the Rector's Office at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, demanding the repeal of the law allowing police on university campuses. Dozens of brutal arrests were made, in response to which hundreds of demonstrators marched to the rectorate and then to the Thessaloniki Police Headquarters where the arrested students were being held.
Dozens of protesters and family members of Lebanese students living abroad burned barricades and shut down banks in opposition to procrastination by the financial institutions in implementing the so-called Student Dollar law that enables them to transfer funds to their children studying abroad.
Dozens of protesters in Patras marched in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, an imprisoned former member of the 17 November left-wing urban guerilla who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens, where he would receive adequate medical care and access to visitors.
Tens of thousands of protesters returned to the streets across Algeria on the 2nd anniversary of the national Hirak movement's birth, calling for the fall of the military establishment and chanting slogans in support of the indigenous Berber movement.
Dozens of protesters in the Bonilla neighborhood of Antofagasta burned barricades to demand the release of the political prisoners of Chile's social uprising that began in 2019, also demanding the complete dissolution of the Carabinero national police force.
Around 150 protesters in Larissa marched in solidarity with protesters in Thessaloniki following the brutal repression by police of the student occupation of the Aristotle University rector's office. Demonstrators called for the repeal of the law passed 2 weeks before, which authorized police to enter university campuses for the first time since 1975.
Hundreds of protesters marched in Girona to demand the release of Pablo Hasel, a left-wing Catalan rapper arrested and facing charges for criticizing the Bourbon royal family of Spain. Demonstrators carried a banner reading "Chess and checkmate to the regime!" and blocked several roads before dispersing peacefully.
Hundreds of protesters in Barcelona marched for a 7th consecutive day demanding the release of Pablo Hasel, a left-wing Catalan rapper arrested and facing charges for insulting the Spanish monarchy. Demonstrators clashed with police, whose heavy presence in the area incited several in the crowd to begin throwing objects at police vehicles and the like.
Thousands of West Papuans marched in Dogiyai against the formation of a Central Papua Province and the building of a police station by the Indonesian government, instead demanding a referendum for independence in order to unite with their blood relatives in Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu.