Hundreds of medical workers gathered outside of the Presidential Palace on Chilean President Sebastian Piñera’s birthday, demanding an expanded budget for the health sector to deal with the pandemic. They also demanded the resignation of Health Minister Enrique Paris, who has been deemed insufficient in his aid to contain the COVID pandemic.
Over 100 protesters returned to the streets of Antofagasta demanding amnesty for all political prisoners of the 18th of October Uprising in Chile. The city ended the night with barricades on several roads and the streets on fire, with a crackdown by Carabineros failing to materialize.
French anarchists in Strasbourg lit fires across the city for New Year’s, against state repression and brutal curfew established by the government.
Iranians placed and burned barricades on the Chabahar-Rusk transit route to prevent the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps to reach demonstrators in Sistan & Balochistan who took to the streets after the massacre of 37 fuel traders by security forces at the border with Pakistan.
The 8th of October national strike was the final day of protest planned against the Job Creation Law, but it appears unlikely that the protests will stop anytime soon. The Parliamentary website has been hacked into by a division of Malay hacktivists, and the riots only intensified since the 7th.
