Demonstrators in the Kurin Sarjangal village near Zahedan took to the streets against the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps following the massacre of 37 fuel traders at the border. One person was killed and one wounded during clashes with security agents in the area, who fired directly at protesters in an attempt to kill.
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Around 70 protesters marched in New York following a decision made by the courts not to charge the police officers responsible for the murder of Daniel Prude, a black man who suffocated and died after law enforcement put a hood over his head during a mental health crisis in March 2020.
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.
Protesters in Port-au-Prince placed and burned tires as barricades demanding the release of student leader Ti-Nèg and all other prisoners of the popular uprising in Haiti illegally detained by police forces, which include 2 Dominican film-makers.
Dozens of Baloch protesters in Khash overwhelmed a limited Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps presence in the area, taking over local bases and taking those inside hostage as reports of the IRGC special forces entering Sistan & Balochistan en masse began to surface.
Protesters in Iranshahr shut down roads leading to Saravan, the site of the beginning of the Baloch uprising in which dozens have been killed and hundreds wounded by a brutal Iranian government crackdown.
Iranians placed and burned barricades on the Chabahar-Rusk transit route to prevent the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps to reach demonstrators in Sistan & Balochistan who took to the streets after the massacre of 37 fuel traders by security forces at the border with Pakistan.
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.
Tens of thousands of protesters returned to the streets across Algeria on the 2nd anniversary of the national Hirak movement's birth, calling for the fall of the military establishment and chanting slogans in support of the indigenous Berber movement.
Thousands of protesters returned to the streets of Haiti, demanding the fall of the Moise regime propped up by the United States and OAS. Demonstrators clashed with police after tear gas was fired by law enforcement, then followed by riot police opening fire on the crowd with automatic weapons, but with no deaths recorded.
Around 10,000 protesters in the Greek-controlled part of Nicosia took to the streets against corruption and nationalism preventing negotiations for unification of Cyprus, an island long divided between the ethnic Greek and Turkish ethnicities. Demonstrators demanded the resignation of the current nationalist president and the development of a plan to bring the north and south of the island together as one.
Thousands of Algerians returned to the streets of Kherrata on the 2nd anniversary of the birth of the Hirak movement, which peacefully brought down the military regime in the country. The first demonstration occurred on the 16th of February in 2019, with massive anti-government protests then spreading across the country.
Over 100,000 Haitian protesters covered the streets of Port-au-Prince in a mass demonstration against the regime of dictatorial American-backed leader Jovenel Moise, widely despised by the public for his autocratic rule and dissolution of Parliament in 2019. Despite clashes occurring in some neighborhoods, the majority of protesters were exempt from police violence.
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.
Dozens of Young People in the Tunisian southern city of Tataouine have set up road blocks and marched against promised government action for employment in the marginalized region. The unemployment rate in Tataouine currently stands at around 30%, one of the highest in the country. In July of 2020 already, protesters managed to get into an oil production facility and to close a pipeline, which transported half of the Country's oil. This forced the government to make concessions and promise investments in the region, but nothing serious has been done yet.