Greek anarchists dropped banners and spray-painted graffiti across several neighborhoods in Larisa in solidarity with imprisoned comrade Stathopoulos Vangelis, held in pre-trial detention for over 13 months without a shred of evidence to the accusations against him. The risk of COVID-19 contraction has been a common concern in many Greek prisons, with jails seeing a skyrocketing of cases across the country.
[Right: map of Larissa in Greece]
Credits to Athens Indymedia.
Chileans placed barricades at the Villa Francia memorial on Curacaví street in Santiago, demanding the immediate release of all political prisoners.
Over a thousand protesters gathered in Tunis on the 8th anniversary of the assassination of left-wing political figure Chokri Belaid, demanding the end of police in Tunisia and the release of over 1000 protesters and youth arrested since the beginning of the unrest in the country in mid-January.
Dozens of protesters took to the streets of Larissa in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, marching to the city’s ancient theater and dropping banners demanding the immediate satisfaction of the hunger striker’s request to be returned to the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Thousands of farmers continued to gather at Ica, burning barricades in the Panamerican highway and effectively shutting down most travel in Peru. The cities of Parcona, San José de Los Molinos District, Santiago, Tate, and Pachacútec all had their access roads blocked, and Lima remained shut off from the rest of the country. Workers from the province of Pisco also went on strike, joining the Panamerican blockade in Ica.
