Protesters in Luanda returned to the streets in a day of protest to demand more employment opportunities and government programs to boost employment rates, and for local elections to be held in 2021. After many human rights organizations took note of the government killing 2 protesters in a previous demonstration in Luanda, police did not attack the protest.
Waukegan residents took to the streets after the police murder of Marcellis Stinnette, a 19-year-old black man with a child who was shot to death inside his own car along with his girlfriend, who was gravely injured. Over 100 protesters attended the spontaneous demonstration.
Hundreds of protesters in Paris marched in opposition to Islamophobia and a Separatism Law being proposed in the French government, which would greatly increase the powers of the state to carry out surveillance on political and religious minorities under the guise of preventing radicalization.
Police in Athens brutally assaulted over 100 protesters demonstrating in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, an imprisoned former member of the 17 November left-wing urban guerilla who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his return to the Korydallos prison, where he will once again be able to see family and friends. Tear gas, flashbang grenades, and even the rare water cannons were deployed to contain a small crowd of people.
Dozens of protesters took to the streets of Valdivia against the police murder of a street artist in the city of Panguipulli for the crime of not presenting his ID, with the crowd gathering at Simón Bolívar Plaza to demand justice for the killed juggler.
