Dozens of protesters gathered in Kyiv, Ukraine, in solidarity with demonstrations in Belarus against the dictatorial Lukashenko regime, chanting “Long live Belarus!” while marching down one of the central roads of the city.
Thousands of students from the Bosphorus University in Istanbul gathered at the South Campus to protest against the installation of a new university rector by the Islamist AKP ruling party. Police responded by firing into the peaceful crowd with rubber bullets and tear gas, arresting several demonstrators.
Around 35 protesters in New York gathered at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center amid reports of cold, confined, unhealthy, and unsafe conditions inside, as well as the war on crime in the city that keeps filling up jails.
Thousands of protesters in Nantes marched against a reformation of the unemployment insurance system, recent mass layoffs in both the public and private sector, as well as job insecurity in France. Several trade unions called for the day of the demonstration, as well as many smaller organizations and groups.
Loyalist rioters in the Cloughfern roundabout of Newtownabbey burned dumpsters and clashed with police, demanding the repeal of the North Ireland Protocol which disrupted the drug trade by setting up customs between the British mainland and North Ireland for shipment of goods.
