Protesters across Minsk, after participating in early rallies in the day, organized at least a dozen demonstrations and marches across the city against Lukashenko, numbering from a dozen people all the way to the thousands. The larger were organized by protest groups, while the smaller ones were by friend groups.
Anarchists in Dresden protested in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the immediate government satisfaction of the former 17 November member’s request to be returned to his old cell at the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Thousands of protesters gathered in Madrid to demand the release of Pablo Hasel, the communist Catalan rapper arrested under charges of criticizing the monarchy. Demonstrators assembled in Puerta del Sol, where police attempted to kettle the crowd and assaulted several people. Hundreds of people then broke police lines, then also placing barricades and setting fires in the streets.
About 150 protesters gathered in front of the ICE facility in Portland to demand the abolition of the agency created in 2002, whose dismantling would legally be within Biden’s direct jurisdiction. DHS & Portland Police attacked the demonstration, using incredibly toxic amounts of the possibly carcinogenic HC tear gas, and making targeted arrests of medics and press.
Hundreds of protesters in Paris marched in opposition to Islamophobia and a Separatism Law being proposed in the French government, which would greatly increase the powers of the state to carry out surveillance on political and religious minorities under the guise of preventing radicalization.
