Dozens of protesters gathered in the Athens neighborhood of Petralona in remembrance of Shehzad Luqman, a migrant worker from Pakistan who was stabbed to death in 2013 on his way to work by 2 supporters of the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn. Despite police harassing the protesters, the march went forward and no arrests were made.
On the 26th of September, the Proud Boys organized rallies in Portland, getting a crowd of ~150 heavily armed men, mostly white. Antifascist organizations in the city quickly heard about the planned rallies and responded by organizing their own, both of which had turnout in the thousands.
Anti-government protesters in Tunis gathered at Human Rights Plaza to demand the release of imprisoned youth and activists during the new spring of demonstrations, marching to the city center and confronting a line of riot cops who blocked them from advancing. Protesters in response threw paint bombs, drenching the police, and smoking marijuana in front of them in defiance of the country’s outlawing of the drug.
Hundreds of protesters in Chania took to the streets against the government’s handling of COVID-19 and police brutality in Greece, with the leading right-wing party continuing to fund police in spite of rapidly accumulating and overwhelming amounts of cases.
Hundreds of protesters marched in Innsbruck in solidarity with refugees in Europe and against the horrific human rights abuses of migrants by the EU, including the creation of the pan-European border agency Frontex and the Moria concentration camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. Police assaulted the demonstration, pepper-spraying participants in the face and making several arrests.
