Anarchists in Amsterdam protested in solidarity with Abtin Parsa, an antifascist who fled Iran in 2019, and is being extradited in Greece back to his home country. Demonstrators called for his release, and the denying of the extradition request by Greece.
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The 31 day-long strike continues at the Total-owned Grandpuits oil refinery, in which 700 jobs are threatened of being removed by Total under the excuse of fighting climate change. These company claims have been challenged by the construction of a 1500km-long pipeline in Uganda, which has been accused of being built under terrible human right conditions.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in the cities of Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haïtien to demand the resignation of President Jovenel Moise, whose mandate is seen by many as illegal, as, by the public, he is seen as an imperialist-backed dictator who funds paramilitaries to keep the streets clean of opposition. Demonstrators burned American flags in condemnation of the country’s support of Moise, calling for democratic elections and a free press.
Roughly 25 protesters in Thessaloniki gathered at the Polytechnic University in solidarity with the political prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the revolutionary November 17 organization who entered a hunger strike demanding a transfer to an Athenian prison instead of his current high-security facility.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Thessaloniki to protest against repression, following events of police brutality nationwide against both civilians and activists in the Greek social movement. Demonstrators also expressed solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, which remains a pressing and ongoing issue.