Maharashtra farmers waving communist flags marched from Nasik to the megacity of Mumbai to protest against Narendra Modi’s new farm law and in solidarity with the farmers converging on Delhi a few days later. Demonstrators then arrived at the Azad Maidan for a mass rally against the law, before dispersing afterward.
Dozens of protesters gathered for a flash demonstration in front of the house of the President of Greece in Athens in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his return to the Korydallos prison, where he will once again be able to see his family and other visitors.
Members of the anarchist Animal Liberation Front destroyed 2 hunting towers in Germany, labeling the “sport” as a practice of murder of sentient beings for fun.
Hundreds of protesters marched in Girona to demand the release of Pablo Hasel, a left-wing Catalan rapper arrested and facing charges for criticizing the Bourbon royal family of Spain. Demonstrators carried a banner reading “Chess and checkmate to the regime!” and blocked several roads before dispersing peacefully.
Loyalist rioters in Carrickfergus, north of Belfast, burned dumpsters and trash on the street and threw petrol bombs at police to demand the repeal of the North Ireland Protocol, which sets up customs between Britain and North Ireland and disrupts the Loyalist drug trade.
