Local far-right groups protested in Frankfurt for the end of the lockdown, with antifascists showing up to counterprotest against the anti-science demonstrators. Tensions were high and sporadic fights broke out, until police cracked down almost exclusively on the counterprotesters, hitting them with a water cannon and arresting many.
Over 2000 people gathered at Syntagma Square in front of Parliament in Athens in solidarity with the Dimitris Koufontinas hunger strike, leaving police extremely confused after being undermanned due to claims that the demonstration had been hastily unplanned. Protesters marched through Omonia to Exarcheia before later dispersing.
Thousands of protesters returned to the streets of Bangkok in a second round of mobilizations against the monarchy of Thailand and the mishandling of the pandemic by Prime Minister Prayut, a general who took office in the 2014 military coup d’état. Despite police use of rubber bullets and tear gas, the crowd, angered by previous repression on August 7th, attacked and burned police posts.
Hundreds of Chilean protesters in the northern city of Antofagasta marched to demand the resignation of President Sebastian Piñera and amnesty for political prisoners. Speeches were first given out at the 21 of May Plaza by mothers of political prisoners, before hundreds more gathered to begin the called-for disruption.
Thousands of people in Myanmar went out on their balconies and the streets to bang pots and pans and blare their car horns in opposition to the military coup that had occurred just 1 day before against one of the first civilian leaders in the country’s history.
