Hundreds of immigrants in Spain gathered at the Government Delegation in Madrid on International Migrants’ Day to protest against the collapse of the processing rate for immigration applications, calling on the government to fix the indefinite delay of immigration processing.
Anarchist protesters in Antofagasta took to the streets, banging pots and pans and blocking roads with flaming barricades in opposition to the continued imprisonment of participants of the 18th of October Uprising in 2019 and the struggle for indigenous Mapuche land rights in Chile.
Around 400 Indian feminists and members of womens’ organizations gathered in front of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, demanding equal pay for equal work, women’s safety & other related issues. Police cracked down on the peaceful demonstration, making several arrests and injuries.
A vigil in honor of a young person who had recently passed away broke out into a riot in Swansea, Wales, in the United Kingdom, after police arrived to break up the gathering. Several cars were torched, and police cars were pelted with rocks, resulting in no arrests at the scene.
Around 30 protesters gathered in Yangon in opposition to the military coup in the country, chanting slogans against the country’s army and in support of Myanmar’s civilian leader who was elected and in control of the government in the country’s first-ever democratic era.
