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.
Dozens of protesters in Rethymno marched against police repression in universities, enabled by the passing of a law through Parliament by the Ministry of Education which enabled police to re-enter university campuses for the first time since 1975.
Diaspora Guineans and allies turned out in Paris and London in support of the protests going on back in their home country against Alpha Conde, the sitting president who many claim won his third term through election rigging, in which more than 15 people have been killed in protests.
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.
Hundreds of students in the northeastern town of Komotini took to the streets against a law proposed by the Minster of Education Niki Kerameos, which would restore police to university campuses across Greece for the first time since the fall of the military dictatorship in 1975.
