Description
Added on the 14/06/2020 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
German police officers begin removing climate activists perched precariously on high structures after they embarked on an operation to evacuate a protest camp that has become a symbol of resistance against fossil fuels. Luetzerath, a village in North Rhine-Westphalia state, has been turned over to around 2,000 anti-coal activists who are trying to prevent the site from being dug up for coal. IMAGES
Several thousand protesters form a human chain near Lake Constance in Germany to protest against the mandatory wearing of masks and restrictions put in place to limit the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. IMAGES
Thousands join a human chain stretching some 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the Lithuanian capital Vilnius to the border with Belarus. Three decades after their gesture of defiance against the Soviet Union, Baltic residents are once again linking arms in solidarity with protesters in Belarus. IMAGES
Belarusians form a human chain leading to a detention centre where protesters have been held. The chain is being formed in Kurapaty, a wooded area on the outskirts of Minsk, where a vast number of people were executed between 1937 and 1941 during the Great Purge by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. IMAGES
Thousands of pupils from secondary schools across Hong Kong hold hands and form a human chain to show their solidarity towards the pro-democracy protest movement. IMAGES