Hundreds of anticapitalist students marched in Paris to demand the reopening of universities with social distancing protocols in place in order to alleviate the psychological distress and mental disorders beginning to set in on the global population of youth, who have been forced to learn from home due to COVID.
Thousands of antifascists, anarchists, and allies gathered in Lyon to protest against the Global Security Law for the fourth week, which banned the filming of police officers. Protesters clashed with police early on, who deployed tear gas as the protest splintered into several groups and forced the police to reposition themselves across the city.
Dozens of protesters in Yangon returned to the streets at nightfall, banging pots and pans and blocking roads in opposition to a military coup carried out on the 1st of February against the elected leader of Myanmar, Su Chi.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Barranquilla in opposition to neoliberal policy in Colombia and the Tributary Reform, which would raise taxes on basic goods and services such as water, electricity, and internet bills, as well as the removal of government aid for lower-income workers.
Police brutally assaulted a demonstration in Nicosia against corruption, in which protesters had begun a march with the aim of bringing light to the human rights abuses committed by the government of Cyprus in the name of containing the coronavirus, which has escalated normally tame protests in the divided island nation.
