Thousands of protesters in Santiago took to the streets in support of prisoners of the social war during the first session of a convention tasked with drafting a new constitution for Chile. Police repressed the demonstration, leading to widespread clashes across the capital city.
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Protesters in Antofagasta blockaded Bonilla Ave. while demonstrating against the Chilean government’s inaction on police brutality, poverty, and hunger, demanding more funds for social programs to aid the poor and needy. Riots and strikes across Chile have taken place for a variety of reasons, all of which boiled over into the October Rebellion of 2019.
Leftists in Bern dropped a banner at the Greek Embassy in Switzerland in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the November 17 revolutionary group who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens which would give better medical treatment of his conditions and the ability to see visitors.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets across Medellin, protesting against the privatization of healthcare and police violence amid a general strike in Colombia. Unlike previous days, police did not attack the demonstrations, which remained largely peaceful.
Police assaulted hundreds of protesters who gathered at Syntagma Square in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, deploying water cannons, pepper spray, and tear gas against the small crowd which was chased all the way to the National Library, where the remaining protesters were hit directly by a water cannon.
