German anarchists gathered outside of the Stammheim Prison in Stuttgart in solidarity with prisoners inside the jail, including 4 antifascists and alleged members of the PKK who have been kept inside the facility from months to years on end.
Dozens of protesters in Rethymno marched against police repression in universities, enabled by the passing of a law through Parliament by the Ministry of Education which enabled police to re-enter university campuses for the first time since 1975.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Plaza Dignidad for a national mobilization demanding the release of political prisoners. Intense clashes occurred with police, who were repulsed from the area several times by angry crowds while trying to disperse the protesters, who finally left after nightfall arrived.
Hundreds of students in Patras took to the streets to decry a law passed by the Ministry of Education, which would enable the government of Greece to create a police force in universities for the first time since the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974 after a failed annexation of Cyprus and a student uprising.
Police in Athens assaulted hundreds of protesters who gathered in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, including the former 17 November member’s son, who was arrested during a police advance as a water cannon volley slammed into the frontline of the demonstration.
