Hundreds of protesters in Minneapolis marched to demand justice for George Floyd the day before the decided verdict for the murder which sparked massive protests in 2020. Demonstrators demand the National Guard go home, and called for former police officer Derek Chauvin to be convicted on all 3 counts.
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Hundreds of protesters returned to Parliament Square in London to demand the nullification of a bill debated in the House of Commons and later passed, which would restrict the right to protest, raising jail sentences and increasing police powers. Demonstrators were assaulted by police, who made several arrests.
80 protesters in the Cretan city of Chania gathered to protest against the indefinite banning of demonstrations in Greece under the guise of coronavirus restrictions. In a statement, the Rosa Nera solidarity organization condemned the militarization of both the police and the army, with more police than doctors and F-16s whose cost could pay for 4000 ICU beds.
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.
Hundreds of bikers took to the streets of Santiago to demand safe and free access to abortion for all women, who have had to rely on miscarriage and illegal procedures to get an abortion due to its status in Chile as illegal. Protesters cycled down the Alameda, the most famous and large road in the country, chanting anti-Piñera slogans and disrupting traffic.
