Anarchists in northern Athens clashed with police amid a protest against evictions in autonomous refugee camps. 4 protesters were injured and 5-6 were arrested, and the demonstration was successfully dispersed.
Dozens of protesters in the Santiago neighborhood of La Pincoya took to the streets against the police state of Chile and neoliberal corporate tyranny. Police responded with brutal repression, shooting water cannons in a residential area and tear-gassing a playground.
Dozens of protesters in Antofagasta took to the streets demanding the resignation of president Sebastian Piñera, famous for exacerbating disastrous neoliberal policies in Chile. Demonstrators also called for the abolition of the country’s national police force, the Carabineros, long marred by accusations of human rights abuses.
Hundreds of protesters gathered at the funeral of Haykel Rachdi to demand justice for the young activist who died after being shot in the head by a tear gas canister by police in the Kasserine Province city of Sbeitla. Police tear-gassed the funeral and made several arrests of women, children, and young men.
A motorcade and a demonstration occurred in Bangkok against the monarchy of Thailand and Prime Minister Prayut, largely held responsible for lack of access to vaccines and mismanagement of the pandemic. Both gatherings ended repressed, with demonstrators using fireworks in retaliation to police use of tear gas and rubber bullets.
