Europa

On the in many parts militant protests at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul against the appointment of the new openly pro-government rector Melih Bulu, the Turkish Human Rights Foundation (TIHV) has published a provisional evaluation report that illustrates how the old Turkish state is expanding and intensifying its repression on broad sections of the people.

Greenland and Faroe Islands

The Joint Arctic Command was part of an international military excercise in Norwegian waters around Bergen, participating with its inspection ship Hvidbjørnen (The White Bear), with military ships and/or submarines from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, France, Canada and Holland.

The Spanish rapper and communist Pablo Hasél is sent behind bars for two and a half years. The reason for this scandalous sentence is solely his lyrics and expressions of opinion.

In Freiburg a graffiti was put up with the slogan "Ni oubli! Ni pardon! Pierre Overney est immortel!" (Not forgotten! Not forgiven! Pierre Overney is immortal!).
Pierre Overney was a militant of the Gauche Proletarienne (Proletarian Left) in France.
While distributing flyers in front of a Renault-factory in Paris, mobilising for an antifascist demonstration, he was shot by a security guard on February 25, 1972.

In the Şişecam factory (bottle and glass production company) in Bursa, glass workers have started the economic struggle inside the factory as a result of the imposition of unpaid leave at the end of 2020 against some employees, while there are to be 64 new hires. In the first days of the unpaid leave, there were collective marches to the factory. For three months now, workers have consistently stopped working overtime.

At the latest since the debate about Charlie Hebdo, anti-Muslim racism is on the rise again in France. Many Muslims in France are poor, in 2015 they were2.5 times less likely to find a job.