Hundreds of protesters gathered in the Peruvian capital of Lima, demonstrating against police impunity after 3 people were killed in a single day of farmers blockading the Panamerican highway. Organizers demanded charges for the killers and justice for the families of the murdered farmers at the agricultural strike.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Popayan against the privatization of healthcare and police violence in Colombia amid a general strike. Police attacked demonstrators after the main march occurred, resulting in clashes occurring at several points across the city.
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.
Hundreds of demonstrators in Bangkok returned to the streets in opposition to the Thai monarchy as well as the resignation of Prime Minister Prayut, a general that took power after the 2014 military coup and is widely held responsible for lack of access to COVID vaccines.
2500 protesters marched in Patras against the reintroduction of police to universities in a bill proposed by Greek Minister of Education Niki Kerameos, demanding the retraction of the law put forward by the leading conservative New Democracy Party.
