Around 25 protesters took to the streets of Miami to demand justice for Ma’Khia Bryant, a Black 16-year-old shot and killed by police in Columbus. Demonstrators blocked traffic on Biscayne Boulevard before engaging with the city police chief and clearing the area.
Via Devoun Cetoute & Daniel A. Varela
Dozens of Turkish anarchists gathered in Kadıköy to protest on the anniversary of the 19 December massacre, better known as Operation “Return to Life”. The protesters were attacked by Turkish police, with 10 arrests made. Prisoners were protesting the government plan to transfer prisoners to American-style “F-type” cells holding 1-3 occupants, in response to which 10,000 soldiers violently occupied 48 prisons to end 2 months of hunger strikes by hundreds of political prisoners. At least 31 prisoners were murdered by the Turkish government, 8 others were disappeared, and 426 prisoners were wounded. 1005 prisoners were then caged in the F-type cells.
Police in Athens attacked over 100 protesters at the Omonia Metro protesting in solidarity with the Dimitris Koufontinas hunger strike, using batons indiscriminately and forcing them back into the metro that most of them used to flee the scene. Demonstrators promptly regrouped at the Syggrou intersection, setting fires and clashing with police.
Protesters from Helsinki to Pretoria took to the streets in solidarity with the End SARS and Revolution Now movement in Nigeria, organized by diaspora groups in the United States, Finland, and South Africa.
Greek anarchists in Kavala dropped a banner at Faliro Park, in solidarity with imprisoned comrade Dimitris Koufontinas, demanding immediate decontamination of prisons and release of all nonfelons, under a campaign of Inmate Lives Matter.
