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Kolkata (India), Feb 16 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Piyal Adhikary) Students and activists demonstrated on Wednesday in Kolkata against the police brutality carried out by Indian officers on February 11.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST.
Boston (US), Sep 28 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: CJ Gunther).- Activists from Mass Action Against Police Brutality protested on Monday in Boston to demand the release of David Wright and the reopening of the Usaamah Rahim case.The group is calling for authorities to re-investigate Rahim's shooting murder in June 2015 and for David Wright's charges to be dropped due to lack of evidence.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST ON MONDAY IN BOSTON.
Thousands of people gather in Place de la République in central Paris to protest against police brutality and racism. The demonstration was called by the "Truth for Adama Traoré" committee, which has been calling for justice since the 24-year-old black man died while being detained by French police in 2016. IMAGES
Hundreds of people rally in the capital Yerevan in protests against the Armenian government's plans to concede land to concede land to the Caucasus nation's historic foe, Azerbaijan. According to Armenian police, it detained dozens of people attempting to block streets in Yerevan as part of protests. Armenia has agreed to hand over territory it has controlled since the 1990s and has started border delimitation efforts, in a bid to secure an elusive peace deal with Baku and avoid another bloody conflict. IMAGES
A rally against anti-Semitism organised by French far-left party La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) is disrupted by demonstrators carrying signs reading "Touche pas à la mémoire" ("Don't touch our remembrance"), in criticism of party leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon's stance on recent events. The protest took place near the site of the former Vél d'Hiv in Paris, where Jews were infamously rounded up and detained during the second World War before being sent to camps. IMAGES