Chilean protesters in Longotoma at the Ruta 5 Norte of La Ligua barricaded roads in response to the Ministry of the Environment withdrawing the Supreme Decree that placed the Salinas de Pullaly wetland and Longotoma dunes as a nature sanctuary. This would allow businesses to destroy and pollute the habitat of thousands of species.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Sudan after the removal of government subsidies for fuel and petrol, which would raise the prices for consumers by more than 200%. Demonstrators set tires on fire and set up roadblocks across the country, demanding a reversing of the repeal.
Dozens of protesters in Rethymno marched against police repression in universities, enabled by the passing of a law through Parliament by the Ministry of Education which enabled police to re-enter university campuses for the first time since 1975.
Protesters gathered at the Port of Piraeus in solidarity with the hunger strike of Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the 17 November revolutionary urban guerilla, with his demands being an immediate transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens where he will be able to see visitors and receive better-quality medical care.
Around 150-200 students in Patras took to the streets to decry a law passed by the Ministry of Education, creating a university police force in Greece which would exist for the first time since the fall of the military junta in 1974 after a failed annexation of Cyprus and a student uprising.
