Youth in Beirut burned barricades and cut off the ring bridge to demand an improvement in living conditions, following the collapse of Lebanon’s economy as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and warehouse explosion that decimated the country’s capital in August.
Via Hassan Obeid
Protesters in Tirana returned for the 4th day of protests after 25-year-old Klodian Rasha was murdered by police for violating quarantine to go and buy cigarettes. Intense clashes with police occurred, as over 80 arrests were recorded by the end of the night on various charges.
Protesters took to the streets again a week after the grand jury ruling of Breonna Taylor that ruled her killers innocent on the 23rd of September. The same protest groups remained on the streets for a week straight on end, with certain protests ending with police more violently reacting to the demonstrations.
Hundreds of Chilean protesters in La Pincoya at the funeral of 15-year-old Esteban, to commemorate his killing by national police in Santiago. […]
Around 100 protesters in Heraklion marched on International Women’s Day, demanding the fall of patriarchal violence and oppression during a wave of allegations of sexual assault perpetrated by top Greek government officials.
