Demonstrators in Antofagasta set up burning tires as a barricade to block the railway between Miramar and Maipú, commemorating the general strike whose ultimate goal is the demand of freedom for political prisoners kept in isolation under the Piñera administration.
Hundreds of protesters gathered at the weekly Stonewall demonstration for Black Trans Liberation, marching through the city before stopping for a speech given by Joel Rivera, a trans woman who was sexually assaulted by both male and female officers while in prison awaiting her bail hearing for exercising first amendment rights.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Barranquilla, in opposition to healthcare privatization and police violence amid an ongoing general strike. Despite the demonstration remaining peaceful on the highway, police attacked, firing tear gas and injuring several participants in the crowd fleeing the chemical weapon.
Protesters at various sites in Lebanon returned to the streets to decry state violence and repression against anti-corruption activists, demonstrating against government incompetence in handling hyperinflation and soaring gas prices. Demonstrators blocked roads with flaming tires, pressuring authorities to act with competence.
Over a thousand protesters gathered in Tunis on the 8th anniversary of the assassination of left-wing political figure Chokri Belaid, demanding the end of police in Tunisia and the release of over 1000 protesters and youth arrested since the beginning of the unrest in the country in mid-January.
