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Eindrücke von der „Silent Demo“ vom 06.Juni 2020 gegen Rassismus und Polizeigewalt.
Impressions from the „Silent Demo“ on 06 June 2020 against racism and police brutality.
YANGON, MYANMAR - FEBRUARY 27: Riot police charge at anti-coup protesters on February 27, 2021 in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar's military government has intensified a crackdown on protesters in recent days, using tear gas, charging at and arresting protesters and journalists. (Photo by Hkun Lat/Getty Images)
Agnes Callamard, the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions poses after a session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 7, 2019. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
A nurse prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 at the vaccination center set up at the Cabanas Institute in Guadalajara, Jalisco state, Mexico, on March 21, 2021. (Photo by Ulises Ruiz / AFP) (Photo by ULISES RUIZ/AFP via Getty Images)
A feminist activist takes part in a flash mob with photographs of women imprisoned after Belarus presidential elections on August 9, 2020, as they protest against police violence in Minsk, on February 14, 2021. - According to the "Viasna" Human Rights Center, 246 people are considered as being political prisoners in Belarus. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) (Photo by STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)
TOPSHOT - People lay flowers and candles at a site in Yangon on March 13, 2021 where protesters died during demonstrations against the military coup. (Photo by STR / AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
TOPSHOT - Women's rights activists gather to march through Taksim Square to protest against gender violence in Istanbul, on November 25, 2018, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. (Photo by Yasin AKGUL / AFP) (Photo credit should read YASIN AKGUL/AFP via Getty Images)