Protesters took to the streets for the weekly Stonewall Black Trans Lives Matter march, which attracted hundreds in attendance. Police followed the demonstrators, but no major clashes occurred throughout the night, with the march ending peacefully.
Dozens of protesters took to the streets of Elizabeth City for a 4th consecutive day, demanding justice for the police murder of Andrew Brown, an unarmed Black man shot in the back of the head several times by officers with assault rifles. Roads were blocked by demonstrators in order to continue pressure to release the body cameras.
Police in Athens brutally assaulted over 100 protesters demonstrating in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, an imprisoned former member of the 17 November left-wing urban guerilla who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his return to the Korydallos prison, where he will once again be able to see family and friends. Tear gas, flashbang grenades, and even the rare water cannons were deployed to contain a small crowd of people.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Blanchardstown, a suburb of Dublin, after the police murder of George Nkencho, a mentally ill Nigerian immigrant. Demonstrators called for a criminal investigation into Nchenko’s murder by the Gardaí, and reform against racism within government services.
Lebanese demonstrators blocked the Eliah intersection in Beirut and the Khaldeh highway, placing barricades and burning tires to protest the government’s mishandling of hyperinflation and soaring gas prices.
