The RAPP (Release Aging People in Prison) campaign demonstrated outside of the governor’s office, demanding the release of Arthur Green, a 70-year-old man who has been in prison for 44 years. He is currently dying of end-stage renal failure in prison hospice, and protesters call it inhuman to keep him away from his family during his last days.
Protesters in the Greek coastal town of Loutraki gathered in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the immediate satisfaction of the former 17 November member’s request to be returned to his old cell at the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Santiago in the peripheral southern neighborhoods of La Bandera, La Pincoya, El Barrero & José María Caro, demanding a universal basic income and an emergency housing plan for all residents of Chile.
Anarchists in Chile set barricades on the Maipo road in the Los Guindos neighborhood in the Santiago metropolitan region, in remembrance of Jorge Mora “Neko”, who was run over by a police car on the outskirts of the Monumental stadium during a football riot on January 28th. Demonstrators unfurled a banner demanding revenge for Neko & Ariel Moreno, who was shot and killed by police during a riot in Neko’s honor the day after his murder.
Dozens of protesters took to the streets of Antofagasta to demand the immediate release of all political prisoners and detainees from the 18th of October Uprising, which spurred on demonstrations extending for almost 1.5 years against the right-wing presidency and neoliberal policies.
