Protesters in Lebanon took to the streets in support of Armenia during the reflaring of the Nagorno-Karabakh war, condemning Azerbaijan under Aliyev as a terrorist state and illegitimate, calling on the United States to stop the war.
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Lebanese protesters gathered at Al-Nour Square in Tripoli in opposition to Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, demanding his fall and the end of alleged rigged elections in Syria. The road was cut off, and barricades were placed and lit on fire at the scene.
Thousands of protesters marched in several sites across Athens against police brutality and repression seen recently across Greece, with universities invaded by plainclothes law enforcement and docile civilians beaten on made-up offenses.
Around 150-200 students in Patras took to the streets to decry a law passed by the Ministry of Education, creating a university police force in Greece which would exist for the first time since the fall of the military junta in 1974 after a failed annexation of Cyprus and a student uprising.