Protesters in Onitsha, south of Abuja in Nigeria, blockaded the city’s gates and burned down its police station on the 21st in protest against the Lekki Toll Gate massacre and its fallout across the country.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in the central Chilean city of Pudahuel south of Santiago, on the 2nd consecutive day of demonstrations in remembrance of Neco Moras and Ariel Moreno, victims of police brutality during a football match on the 28th-29th of January in 2020.
Protesters in the Santiago borough of Lo Espejo burnt barricades after the brutal murder of a woman named Pamela, who was burned alive in the car that she lived in a few days prior. Demonstrators became enraged after police did not try to arrest the person responsible, who still walks out in the open with total impunity.
Dozens of workers at the Total refinery in France entered a 15th day of striking and attempting to halt access to the facility in protest against the company’s conversion plans, which trade unions estimate will lead to 700 layoffs.
Syrian Kurdish rebels in Rojava gathered in solidarity with protesters in Chile, calling on the government of the Chilean state to release the political prisoners of the 18th of October uprising who have been often kept in complete isolation.
