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Added on the 27/11/2020 16:41:11 - Copyright : AFP EN
A few hundred demonstrators with saucepans form a welcoming committee for President Emmanuel Macron, who is visiting a health centre southwest of Paris, amid the rapid decline in the number of doctors. IMAGES
Hundreds of protesters gather in the Thai capital Bangkok calling for police to free arrested activists, defying emergency measures imposed earlier to quell a pro-democracy movement. 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
Minsk (Belarus), 12 Aug (EFE/EPA), (Camera: Tatiana Zenkovich).- Post-electoral protests continue in Belarus but are losing strength after the exile of the unified opposition candidate, Svetlana Tijanovskaya, and the harsh repression of demonstrations by the security forces. According to official sources, more than 6,000 people have been arrested in the last 72 hours, in addition to nearly 250 injured people who are being held in various medical centres around the country.FOOTAGE OF THE DETENTION CENTRE IN MINSK.
Just a handful of protesters in Brooklyn are gathered at the Barclays Center a minute before a curfew begins. But five minutes into the curfew, more demonstrators arrive and protest in front of police officers. IMAGES
A man shouts protest slogans from a pedestrian bridge as tens of thousands pro-democracy protesters defy a police ban and begin marching through Hong Kong on Sunday, a day after riot police fired rubber bullets and tear gas in the latest violent confrontation to plunge the financial hub deeper into crisis. IMAGES