Hundreds of protesters in Patras answered the call to a national mobilization in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, marching across the city carrying banners in support of the former 17 November member and demanding his return to the Korydallos prison in Athens.
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Over 100 protesters in Heraklion gathered in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike to be returned to the Korydallos prison. Demonstrators were almost immediately attacked by police before regrouping and forcing law enforcement to retreat and disperse.
Over 400 protesters in Berlin marched in solidarity with the Dimitris Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the acceptance of the former 17N member's request to return to his old cell in the Korydallos prison where he will once again be able to see his family.
Police in Athens attacked over 100 protesters at the Omonia Metro protesting in solidarity with the Dimitris Koufontinas hunger strike, using batons indiscriminately and forcing them back into the metro that most of them used to flee the scene. Demonstrators promptly regrouped at the Syggrou intersection, setting fires and clashing with police.
Around 100 protesters in Patras marched in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, an imprisoned former member of the 17 November leftist urban guerilla, who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his return to the Korydallos prison where he will be able to see his family once again.
Over 150 protesters in the town of Volos marched in solidarity with the hunger strike of Dimitris Koufontinas, moving through the heart of the city and throwing paint at the office of a New Democracy MP, Christos Boukoros, before finishing the demonstration and dispersing for the night.
Over 100 protesters in Ioannina marched against police repression in universities, enabled by a law passed by the Ministry of Education which allows police back into campuses for the first time since the fall of the military dictatorship decades ago.
Following brutal police repression in Athens during a protest in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, members of the Anarchist Political Organization and hundreds more gathered at Syntagma Square against state brutality & in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas.
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.
Baloch protesters at the Haqabad border security checkpoint in Zahedan took over local Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps offices in the city on the 2nd day of demonstrations after a massacre of 37 fuel smugglers at the Iranian-Pakistani borders. The crowd torched police vehicles and occupied the local buildings, taking down the flag of the IRGC.
Hundreds of protesters in Bogota marched during the national day against police brutality, demanding justice for Dilan Cruz, a student killed by police due to a tear gas canister to the head during the 2019 protests in Colombia. ESMAD riot police attacked the demonstration, deploying tear gas and injuring several people blocking roads near the center of Bogota.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Niamey, the capital of Niger, after a close election led to both candidates claiming victory in the first democratic election since independence in the poorest country in the world due to French interference with coups. Demonstrators in support of opposition candidate Mahame Ousmane gathered in front of a police station but were dispersed by police who fired tear gas.
Hundreds of healthcare workers gathered at the ministries of Labor and Health, as part of a strike called for by POEDIN (Panhellenic Federation of Public Hospital Employees), demanding more money to help deal with the pandemic instead of for funding the army and police with more and more unnecessary and repressive gear.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in the seaside town of Vilanova to demand freedom for Pablo Hasel, a left-wing Catalan rapper imprisoned for criticizing the Spanish monarchy. Demonstrators marched through the city, burning barricades and clashing with police after law enforcement arrived on the scene in riot gear.
Hundreds of protesters in the Iranian majority-Sunni and Baloch town of Saravan set the governors' building and several police cars on fire after government forces opened fire on dozens of fuel traders at the Iranian-Pakistani border, killing at least 37. Following government forces opening fire on demonstrators, more public buildings fell.