Thousands of Tunisians returned to the streets 10 years after the Arab Spring, demanding change to the country’s endemic corruption and lack of social services to fit the needs of the people and those in renewed poverty as a result of the COVID pandemic. Despite widespread police repression with tear gas and beatings, protesters held strong in many cities across the country.
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Dozens of protesters marched in Alexandroupolis in opposition to police repression to universities, which has grappled the nation following a law passed by the Ministry of Education allowing police to re-enter universities for the first time since the fall of the military dictatorship decades ago.
More than 15 ports went on strike across Chile against the presidency of Sebastian Piñera, alongside many workers in Antofagasta among other regions. The already-striking Barros Luco hospital staged a solidarity protest, marching to the Presidential Palace, with many other medical workers taking to the streets as well.
Protesters in Dahour Al-Abadiyeh were attacked by the military of Lebanon, who cleared the town’s road and assaulted demonstrators decrying government incompetence in handling hyperinflation and soaring gas prices.
Thousands of protesters in Manizales gathered on the 4th day of demonstrations against the privatization of hospitals and the increase in taxes on basic goods and services in Colombia. Protesters knocked down the status of conservative fascist politician Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, before being attacked and tear-gassed by police, thinning out the crowd and starting clashes across the city.