Protesters in Malmö, Sweden, dropped a banner in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the left-wing revolutionary group 17 November, who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens, where he would receive adequate medical care and access to visitors.
Protesters at various sites in Lebanon returned to the streets to decry state violence and repression against anti-corruption activists, demonstrating against government incompetence in handling hyperinflation and soaring gas prices. Demonstrators blocked roads with flaming tires, pressuring authorities to act with competence.
Thousands of protesters returned to the streets of Cali for a 5th consecutive day, as part of a general strike demanding a halt to police violence and the privatization of healthcare. Police destroyed property and opened fire on the demonstrators with live rounds, injuring more than 10.
Anarchists in Athens threw Molotov cocktails at the town hall of Moschato in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, torching and severely damaging the registry office.
Dozens of protesters gathered in front of the Tribunals of Justice in Santiago, to demand the release of their relatives stuck in jail, some for over a year, as political prisoners of the 18th of October Uprising in Chile that began in 2019.
