Over 300 bikers sat-in El Parrón, demonstrating against a lack of regulations against drivers when driving near bikers, dozens of whom have been killed in recent weeks. Protesters joined the national bikers’ strike going on to pressure the government to change its measures and attitude towards the situation.
Demonstrators gathered in Athens in front of the Elta Courier postage delivery office, demanding the reinstitution of the trade unionist Akis G. after being fired for attempting to unionize his workplace. Many criticize the company’s practice of hiring employees as contractors instead of providing them with the proper benefits that they would be entitled to under permanent employment.
Dozens of protesters gathered at Syntagma Square in Athens for the release of Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the left-wing revolutionary group 17 November serving a life sentence; Koufontinas entered a hunger strike to demand his transfer to his old cell in the Korydallos prison in Athens, where he would again be able to see visitors and be able to receive medical care.
Dozens of protesters gathered in Chania in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the immediate satisfaction of his request by the government to be returned to the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Protesters gathered in the central Greek city of Volos on the 6-month anniversary of the death of Vasilis Maggos, a 27-year-old who was mysteriously found dead one month after being brutally beaten by police at an environmentalist demonstration against burning trash. Vasilis had been left with many ribs broken until he was close to dying from asphyxiation and dehydration; police then took him to a freezer and gave him water drop by drop.
