Protests in Belarus are now held just as much by women as men, due to the brutal detention of women in Minsk, being tossed into unmarked vans by their hair and beaten en route to jail. Demonstrations are still concentrated in Minsk, but remain active nationwide.
Thousands of students took to the streets of Athens, demanding the end of the law proposed by the Minister of Education which would bring police back to university campuses. Riot police assaulted the demonstration, sparking a series of clashes with Molotov cocktails, poles, and fire extinguishers between the crowd of students and law enforcement.
Dozens of protesters in the city of Antofagasta took to the streets, placing and burning barricades to demand the resignation of right-wing president Sebastian Piñera and the release of all political prisoners of the social uprising that began in 2019.
Haitians took to the streets all over Port-au-Prince in the thousands on the 17th to protest against the allegedly corrupt regime of Jovenel Moise. Demonstrators set up barricades, and clashed with police, with several dozens of injuries but no deaths.
Dozens of protesters in Frankfurt gathered at the Greek embassy in the German city in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the immediate satisfaction by the government of the communist prisoner’s request to be returned to his old cell at the Korydallos prison.
