Thousands demonstrated in the French cities of Quimper and Toulouse against the global security law banning the filming of police, which has led to nationwide unrest. Toulouisian protesters clashed with police, who deployed tear gas canisters and water cannons to disperse the demonstration.
Hundreds of students in the island city of Heraklion in Crete marched against a proposed bill to restore police to university campuses in Greece, participating in a national mobilization against the law.
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.
Around 100 protesters in Patras marched in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, an imprisoned former member of the 17 November leftist urban guerilla, who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his return to the Korydallos prison where he will be able to see his family once again.
Around 75 protesters in Portland gathered at the Justice Center for a demonstration demanding the abolition of ICE, an agency created alongside DHS in 2001 to patrol the southern border, a task marred with allegations of human rights violations and atrocities committed.
