 So, I'm welcome to the International Legal Roundup with people's dispatch where we bring you some of the top stories from across the globe. Let's take a look at today's headlines. Columbia witnesses another national strike against President Gouke. Protests intensify in Nigeria after shooting of protesters. Israel accuses of shooting officers who shot dead an autistic Palestinian man. Western Europe sees massive spike in COVID-19 cases. Thai government repeals emergency order against popular protests. On Wednesday, thousands of workers, peasants, teachers, students, indigenous and apartheid-sounding people took part in a national strike in Columbia. The protests were held against the social and economic policies of President Ivan Dukke. Several peaceful demonstrations were held throughout the country in rejection of the economic crisis, the rising unemployment, police suppression, and assassination of social leaders. In the capital, Bogota hundreds of workers from diverse sectors hit the streets and marched towards the Plaza Bolivar. The workers were demanded a guaranteed basic income, more funding for health, education and housing sectors, and an end to the killings of human rights defenders. In Bogota, participants of the social and community MINGA for the difference of life, territory, democracy and peace also joined the strike. MINGA is an indigenous Quechua word and refers to collective action for the benefit of the community. Similar massive protests were also carried out in cities across the country. The cause for the national strike was given by a large number of social organizations and trade unions. Yesterday's national strike happened exactly one month after the national strike of September 21st. The strike in September happened six weeks after the demonstrations, following the police killing of a 46-year-old law student and taxi driver Javier Ordoniz in which 13 other people were killed by the police. Moving on to our next story, the anti-Saharist protests in Nigeria continued on Thursday, October 22nd, defying round-the-clock curfew in the country. The protesters turned up in large numbers in different parts of the country in support of the demand of police uniforms and also to denounce the state oppression. On Wednesday, a day after the army opened fire on the peaceful gathering in capital Lagos killing more than 10 people, several protests were held denouncing the state violence. The firing on the peaceful protesters on Tuesday night has also invited global condemnation. On Tuesday, protesters who were peacefully gathered in the leaky camp in Lagos were fired upon by the armed forces deployed to prevent the protests. Graphic video of the shooting has been circulated on social media and has gone viral. On Wednesday, a small group of angry protesters burnt down the offices of the television continental and a newspaper The Nation News. Both of these media outlets are owned by former Lagos state governor Bola Tinubu. According to Sahara reporters, protesters believe that Tinubu has been responsible for the deployment of the army, leading to the killing of the protesters. Tinubu belongs to the ruling All Progressive Congress party. People in Nigeria are demanding the end of the police's Special Anti-Roberty Squad or SARS, which has been accused of several atrocities and corruption. Protesters are also demanding widespread police reforms. Though the president, Mohamed Buhari, has conceded both the demands formally on Sunday, the people have deep distrust about the implementation and want some concrete action. The police officer who short-dead Iyad Al-Halaq, a Palestinian man with autism on May 30, was charged with reckless homicide by the Israeli authorities more than four months after the incident on Wednesday, October 21. Civil society and human rights groups, however, have criticized the decision to charge the officer with a lesser crime when it is beyond doubt that he killed Iyad with deliberation and incomplete violation of his orders. The case against another officer has been dropped following the investigation by the Israeli Justice Ministry, which concluded that he ordered his subordinate not to shoot. 32-year-old Iyad Al-Halaq was killed by the police officer at a checkpoint in occupied East Jerusalem while he was on his way to school. The killing had created a massive outrage among Palestinians who took to streets demanding justice with the slogan of Palestinian life's matter. Several Palestinian groups have condemned the Israeli government's move to charge the accused officer with a lesser crime instead of murder. Halaq's family had earlier accused the Israeli government officials for destroying evidence in the case. As well as erected several check posts across the occupied territories and several Palestinians have been shot while crossing them. In most of the cases, the police and security officers responsible for such killings are never charged. Some of them are charged for minor crimes and the Israeli justice system has been lenient even towards those who have been found guilty. Now going to Europe on Wednesday, Spain became the first Western European country to have more than a million COVID-19 infections. It is only the sixth nation in the world to have recorded a million cases so far. Other countries in the list are the US, India, Brazil, Russia and Argentina. The number of new infections and deaths in the country has seen a steep rise since late August which had forced the government to bring back some of the restrictions on people's movement lifted earlier. On Wednesday alone, Spain recorded around 17,000 new cases with over 156 deaths. The country has a total of 34,366 COVID-19 related deaths so far. France, which is recording more than 25,000 new cases daily for some days now, is set to join Spain and become the seventh country to have recorded more than a million cases. As of Wednesday, it had 999,744 COVID-19 cases with over 34,000 deaths. France has imposed curfews in nine regions including the capital Paris and several more regions are expected to face similar curfews soon. Several hospitals in and around Paris are facing an overload of cases. In the second out of COVID-19 outbreak, Italy, one of the worst affected countries in the first outbreak, has broken all previous records in terms of new infections. On Wednesday, it recorded 15,199 new cases. This is the single largest one-day increase in the country ever. The spike in new cases has forced the government to bring back curfews. According to a Reuters report, the regions near the capital, Rome, will have curfew beginning at 5 am on Friday, October 23rd. Germany, which had been able to restrict the number of cases and overall deaths in the first wave of the outbreak, is now recording the highest single daily infections ever. The country is recording more than 10,000 new infections every day and its total deaths are nearing 10,000. On Wednesday, the country's health minister tested positive for the virus. The UK recorded over 26,600 new cases on Wednesday. Its overall tally reached 789,229. Several other countries in the region are recording a record number of new cases. The World Health Organization has already warned on October 16th that the number of deaths due to COVID-19 infections in Europe can exceed 5 times its April peak in a few months if urgent lockdown measures and other precautions are not taken. The Government of Thailand repealed the emergency decree earlier week after it was passed. On Thursday, a government order was passed in the afternoon stating that the purpose of the emergency order that prohibited mass gatherings was supposedly achieved. The repeal of the emergency order coincides with an earlier 24-hour deadline given by protesters on October 20th to repeal the decree, promising a surprise that the demand was not met. The repeal of the decree also comes immediately a day after thousands of protesters marched on Wednesday late at night and submitted an unsigned letter of resignation and three-day ultimatum for the resignation of Prime Minister Prayod Chanukha. The letter addressed to the people was received by the PM's Deputy Secretary General and the police after an hour of demonstration outside the government house which houses the Prime Minister's office. With submission of the letter, the representatives of the protests also gave a three-day ultimatum for the Prime Minister to vacate the position and release all political prisoners. The demonstration comes in less than a week after the police and the parliament had forcibly cleared a similar demonstration outside the government house. The submitted letter requires Prayod to concede his position as the head of the government. The challenge the government had imposed an emergency decree on October 15th in a bid to put an end to the anti-government protests that have been raging for more than three months now. The decree banned public gathering of five people or more and imposed harsh restrictions on media coverage as well. 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