Slovenia police use water cannons at anti-COVID-19 pass protest
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Police fired tear gas and water cannons in Slovenia's capital on Wednesday at thousands of protesters who oppose tough anti-coronavirus measures in the small European Union nation.
The protesters responded by throwing bottles and other objects at the riot police.
About 10,000 protesters, chanting "Freedom! Freedom!" tried to block a major highway north of Ljubljana when the police intervened, the second such incident in Slovenia within a month.
The protest, organized mostly by groups against the use of COVID-19 vaccine passes, took place as Slovenia suspended the use of the Johnson & Johnson shot on Wednesday while it investigates the death of a 20-year-old woman who had received one.
The suspension of the J&J vaccine will be in place until experts determine whether there was a link between the woman's death from a stroke this week and the vaccine shot she received two weeks earlier, Health Minister Janez Poklukar said.
