About 30 protesters gathered outside of the SENAME (National Service for Minors) facility in San Joaquin, an area of Santiago, Chile. They demanded that all those arrested have their records cleared and be freed immediately from isolation, that they had been contained in from weeks to months under the casus belli of protecting people from COVID-19.
Anarchists in Thessaloniki gathered to protest in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the 17 November revolutionary group who went on hunger strike starting on the 8th of January, demanding his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens which would allow him to see visitors and receive adequate medical treatment. A heavy police buildup arrived at the demonstration, detaining 7 participants without clause of arrest, later releasing them.
Members of the Animal Liberation Front in Canada destroyed 4 hunting towers that had been previously spotted in Quebec, condemning the sport as one of the cold-blooded murder of sentient creatures.
Around 1500-2000 demonstrators in Thessaloniki took to the streets in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the government accept his request to be returned to his old cell at the Korydallos prison in Athens where he will be able to see visitors again.
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Senegal after an opposition leader was arrested under accusations of rape said to be politically motivated. Barricades were burned and clashes occurred with police and the military across the country, with at least 1 death occurring after security forces opened fire into a crowd.
