Around 200 gather in Braga's main square for a housing assembly

About 200 people gathered in Braga's Praça da República for a popular assembly on housing and living conditions, where speakers aired concerns, debated solutions and put forward proposals for action to be voted on. Speeches criticised police repression of the protest camps in Porto and Lisbon and demanded the scrapping of the new rental law, now being discussed in committee after parliament approved it. The protests began in Porto on 10 October and spread to Lisbon and other cities. In Porto, 39 participants were injured in a police charge; in Lisbon, 55 protesters were detained. Organisers say they will stay on the streets.