Protesters returned to the Bergen County Jail in solidarity with imprisoned migrants put in detention at the facility, demanding their release and amnesty for all arrested protesters during the clashes of December 12 that resulted in multiple arrests.
Hundreds of thousands of peasants and farmers stormed the capital of Delhi, clashing with police and occupying the Mughal-era Red Fort monument for the first time in the modern history of India. Although police began to use metal poles against protesters instead of wooden batons, and seemingly unending in their brutality, it was simply impossible to contain the Kisans who received local support.
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.
Dozens of protesters in the La Pincoya neighborhood of Santiago took to the streets on the Day of the Young Combatant, placing barricades and setting fires across the area. Police responded with brutal repression but were pushed back by demonstrators after gassing a residential area.
Hundreds of Irish protesters gathered in Balbriggan, north of Dublin, against the murder of George Nkencho by the Gardaí. Demonstrators called for a criminal investigation into the officer who shot the 27-year-old Nigerian immigrant 5 times, as well as the halting of the practice of police taking down protesters’ names.
