Thousands of protesters clashed with police outside of the Electoral Commission in Tsibili, with water cannons being used and hundreds of injuries occurring. 8 opposition parties declared that they would boycott the Parliament after claims were made of widespread electoral fraud, and have called for mass civil unrest for a second election.
Dozens of members of the CNT-AIT (National Labor Confederation-International Workers’ Association) dropped banners in Cartagena in solidarity with Alfon, a political prisoner arrested during the Spanish general strike of 2012 who was sentenced to multiple years in jail on widely disputed charges.
The Lebanese Army has reoccupied the ministries, and has cracked down hard on any dissent, brutalizing protesters that they find in the streets.
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.
Protesters in 2 sites in Athens gathered to protest against the incursion by police into Athens Polytechnic university and the arrest of more than a dozen occupiers of the university. The Polytechnic University in Athens had previously outlawed the presence of police on campus, and many wonder what justification will be cited for bringing them in.
