West Belarusians took to the streets in what was coined a “district storm”, with many small protests going on in areas that were not normally deemed to have a culture of anti-Lukashenko sentiment. Police failed to arrive in time to put down the protests, and so the “mission” of sorts was deemed a success.
Syrian Kurdish rebels in Rojava gathered in solidarity with protesters in Chile, calling on the government of the Chilean state to release the political prisoners of the 18th of October uprising who have been often kept in complete isolation.
Around 300 protesters took to the streets of the Lichtenburg borough of Berlin against gentrification, marginalization, and evictions, following the destruction of the houseless camp on Rummelsburger Bay in which its residents were forced out and had many of their belongings destroyed.
Thousands of demonstrators across Iran took to the streets against the Islamic Republic government and the Ayatollah, in a movement sparked by water shortages in the Arab province of Khuzestan. Police deployed live rounds against protesters, killing one, and crowds in several areas bombed police cars, burned tanks, and destroyed security cameras.
Around 1000 protesters marched in Patras against police repression in universities, demanding the repeal of a law passed by the Ministry of Education allowing police to enter universities for the first time in decades since the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974.
