StudentsAcademic personnel Opposition: Government: No centralized leadership Kyriakos Mitsotakis Michalis Chrisochoidis Niki KerameusLt.Gen.

[6] Protests intensified in response to the hunger strike of the prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of terrorist organization 17N, who had started the strike in December, demanding his transfer to a different prison after he had been forcibly relocated to a maximum-security facility in central Greece,[3] as well as issues relating to police brutality and specifically the DELTA Force motorcycle police.

In defiance of the ban on public gatherings imposed by the lockdown, students organized weekly protests to continue against the new bill.

[6][10] On 22 February, protestors occupied the principal's building in the University of Thessaloniki and, when police attempted to remove them, clashes broke out.

[12] On 23 February, people scattered leaflets outside the presidential mansion of Katerina Sakellaropoulou, to protest in support of Dimitris Koufontinas.

[13] On 24 February, a Koufontinas solidarity demonstration in Athens was dispersed by police using tear gas, stun grenades and a water cannon.