Students at the Vaal University of Technology (VUT) began protests after the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) refused to give out the December allowances given to all students of South Africa. Demonstrators then proceeded to block the university’s entrances with burning barricades, before being attacked by police, leading to several arrests.
Students gathered in Santiago to protest the transition test of Chilean Universities, which they say actively undermines many students in poverty. Barricades were first placed at the Alameda intersection with Los Héroes before protesters gathered at the Ministry of Education. Police responded with extreme force, attacking protesters and press, including the cameraman live on scene for CNN Chile.
Hundreds of protesters in many sites across Lebanon protested in opposition to government repression against anti-corruption activists as well as incompetence in handling hyperinflation and soaring gas prices.
Hundreds of Chilean protesters in La Pincoya at the funeral of 15-year-old Esteban, to commemorate his killing by national police in Santiago. […]
Dozens of protesters marched in the northeastern city of Drama against police brutality, seen recently across Greece after a college student was beaten in a park and a university was invaded by plainclothes officers who took 33 people into custody.
