Dozens of protesters and family members of Lebanese students living abroad burned barricades and shut down banks in opposition to procrastination by the financial institutions in implementing the so-called Student Dollar law that enables them to transfer funds to their children studying abroad.
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Around 1000 students in Patras returned to the streets on a 2nd consecutive day of protests against a law that reintroduces police to university campuses, passed under the ruling right-wing New Democracy government currently in control of Parliament.
Around 150 protesters in New York marched to demand justice for Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old black man murdered by police in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center. Demonstrators blocked the Alexander Hamilton Bridge and were intimidated by police, although no arrests occurred.
Hundreds of protesters in Santiago took to the streets to demand the release of all political prisoners of Chile’s social uprising which began in 2019, as well as the resignation of right-wing President Sebastian Piñera. Police arrived with newly made militarized gear, including a tank never seen before, and furnished armored vehicles, one of which was used to drive into a demonstrator.
Protesters in Malmö, Sweden, dropped a banner in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the left-wing revolutionary group 17 November, who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens, where he would receive adequate medical care and access to visitors.
