Peruvian farmers and industrial workers clashed with police at the last standing blockade in Panamericana Sur, at Ica Province. Many blockaders were hit with rubber bullets and crowds with tear gas, fighting back by throwing stones and injuring several soldiers and police officers. After reinforcements arrived to aid the outnumbered government forces, however, the last blockade would fall, with organizers vowing to return on the 29th.
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.
Dozens of Italians gathered at the Greek consulate in Milan in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the 17N revolutionary group on hunger strike for nearly a month to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens, which would give him adequate medical care and access to visitors.
Anarchists in Thessaloniki gathered in solidarity with the former 17N member Dimitris Koufontinas, who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens, where he would receive better medical care and the ability to see visitors.
Around 100 protesters in York marched in opposition to a bill debated and later passed in the English House of Commons, which would expand police powers in the United Kingdom and also restrict protests, with a cap on noisemaking and extended prison time for arrests at demonstrations.
