Hundreds of Iraqis gathered at the Muhammad al-Qasim Highway in Central Baghdad to place barricades and disrupt activity as part of the anti-corruption protest movement, chanting slogans against Soleimani and Iranian intervention. The Iraqi government responded by sending dozens of security forces, with heavily militarized riot police assaulting protesters on foot.
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Dozens of protesters gathered at the Cerro Chena mountain in opposition to a proposed sports city at the site near the capital city of Santiago. Torture and disappearances had been known to occur on the mountain under the previous neoliberal dictatorship of Pinochet, and demonstrators demand that all human remains be removed before the sports city begins construction.
Thousands of protesters marched in Paris in opposition to police violence and racism, demanding an end to the empowerment of police unions in France and systemic discrimination and targeting of minorities by law enforcement and government agencies.