Thousands of protesters gathered in Abuka to #EndSARS, as part of the second wave of demonstrations in Nigeria more than a month and a half after the Lekki Toll Gate Massacre. Unlike in other cities, clashes did not occur with police and no arrests were made.
Dozens of protesters took to the streets 19 days after the beginning of demonstrations demanding justice for Andrew Brown, an unarmed Black man killed by police in his driveway using assault rifles. Police kept a presence in the area, but did not attack the protest and allowed participants to peacefully disperse.
Dozens of protesters gathered at the Courts of Justice in Santiago, comprising of unionized health workers and families of political prisoners in Santiago. Medical workers demanded the release of political prisoners for both health reasons due to possible contraction of COVID, as well as the mental health effects comparable to torture due to isolation for months from friends and family.
Police in Athens brutally assaulted over 100 protesters demonstrating in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, an imprisoned former member of the 17 November left-wing urban guerilla who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his return to the Korydallos prison, where he will once again be able to see family and friends. Tear gas, flashbang grenades, and even the rare water cannons were deployed to contain a small crowd of people.
Hundreds of protesters in Columbus gathered to protest in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, demanding the immediate end of US support for Israel, an internationally designated apartheid state.
