Thousands of people gathered on Saturday afternoon in central London to take part in a large Black lives matters demonstration. Television pictures show people standing close to one another, despite previous calls by British Health Minister Matt Hancock to avoid large crowds because of the risk of being infected by the corona virus.

- Gathering is not only illegal. It is also, which is perhaps more important, a way of exposing oneself and one's family and other people to unnecessary risks, says London Police Chief Cressida Dick, reports the BBC.

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But it's not just in the UK that people are closing in to protest police brutality and racism - demonstrations have been held around the world.

In Australia, thousands of people wearing placards and wearing masks gathered on Saturday to support the Black Lives Matter movement and protests in the US against police violence and racism. In Brisbane, 10,000 people are expected to have participated in the protests, according to Australian television channel ABC News.

In Thailand, the pandemic rules make the protests take place online, where activists ask people to film and take pictures of themselves wearing - as in the US - black masks, fists raised and fitted with placards. Thai network protesters will also keep a silence of 8 minutes and 46 seconds - as long as a white policeman pressed the black unarmed George Floyd to the ground with his knee to his neck.

"Is there racism in Japan"

But around the world, what has started in the United States is now beginning to be transformed into protests with local connections. In Australia, for example, protesters are raising the issue of police treatment of the country's indigenous people and the case of David Dungay, an Aboriginal man who died after being held by prison guards.

In Tokyo, the protests concern a case where a Kurdish man must have been stopped in his car by police, forced to the ground and left there injured.

"I want to point out that there is racism in Japan," the 17-year-old student and protester Wakaba told Reuters news agency.