Demonstrators in the Kurin Sarjangal village near Zahedan took to the streets against the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps following the massacre of 37 fuel traders at the border. One person was killed and one wounded during clashes with security agents in the area, who fired directly at protesters in an attempt to kill.
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Following brutal police repression in Athens during a protest in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, members of the Anarchist Political Organization and hundreds more gathered at Syntagma Square against state brutality & in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas.
Police in Athens brutally assaulted over 100 protesters demonstrating 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 return to the Korydallos prison, where he will once again be able to see family and friends. Tear gas, flashbang grenades, and even the rare water cannons were deployed to contain a small crowd of people.
Around 35 protesters took to the streets of Brooklyn after the Rochester police officers who killed Daniel Prude were not charged. In response to the small march, a miniature army of about 50 New York Police Department officers gathered at the site and made 8-10 arrests.
Around 70 protesters marched in New York following a decision made by the courts not to charge the police officers responsible for the murder of Daniel Prude, a black man who suffocated and died after law enforcement put a hood over his head during a mental health crisis in March 2020.
Baloch protesters at the Haqabad border security checkpoint in Zahedan took over local Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps offices in the city on the 2nd day of demonstrations after a massacre of 37 fuel smugglers at the Iranian-Pakistani borders. The crowd torched police vehicles and occupied the local buildings, taking down the flag of the IRGC.
Protesters in Port-au-Prince placed and burned tires as barricades demanding the release of student leader Ti-Nèg and all other prisoners of the popular uprising in Haiti illegally detained by police forces, which include 2 Dominican film-makers.
Hundreds of protesters in Thessaloniki marched in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the 17 November urban guerilla in Greece. He entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison, where he would once again be able to see his family as visitors.
Dozens of protesters marched for a 2nd day in Rochester after the perpetrators of Daniel Prude's murder, several police officers, were not charged. Prude had been suffocated after police put a hood over his head in March 2020, which started massive protests after body camera footage of the incident came out.
Anarchists in Berlin occupied the Greek embassy in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the left-wing revolutionary group 17 November 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.
Hundreds of protesters in Bogota marched during the national day against police brutality, demanding justice for Dilan Cruz, a student killed by police due to a tear gas canister to the head during the 2019 protests in Colombia. ESMAD riot police attacked the demonstration, deploying tear gas and injuring several people blocking roads near the center of Bogota.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Niamey, the capital of Niger, after a close election led to both candidates claiming victory in the first democratic election since independence in the poorest country in the world due to French interference with coups. Demonstrators in support of opposition candidate Mahame Ousmane gathered in front of a police station but were dispersed by police who fired tear gas.
Dozens of Baloch protesters in Khash overwhelmed a limited Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps presence in the area, taking over local bases and taking those inside hostage as reports of the IRGC special forces entering Sistan & Balochistan en masse began to surface.
Protesters in Iranshahr shut down roads leading to Saravan, the site of the beginning of the Baloch uprising in which dozens have been killed and hundreds wounded by a brutal Iranian government crackdown.