Protests began in Singapore, Taiwan, Australia, Japan, and small groups in these countries before extending to cities in numerous European nations. In the US alone, there were at least 60 planned.
Thousands of Indians were protesting on Sunday in over 130 locations across 25 countries, according to the organizers. They were calling for justice in the wake of a trainee doctor who was raped and killed at a hospital in Kolkata last month.
Protests began in Singapore, Taiwan, Australia, Japan, and small groups in these countries before extending to cities in numerous European nations. In the US, sixty were planned.
They contributed to the already-going demonstrations in India following the death on August 9 of the 31-year-old chest medicine postgraduate student.
The victim was a student at RG Kar Medical College, where the previous principal and a suspect have been taken into custody.
Thousands of mostly black-clad women gathered at Sergels Torg square during one of the protests in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, to sing Bengali songs and raise posters calling for the arrest of those responsible for the crime and the safety of Indian women.
The news of this horrific crime against a young trainee doctor while he was on duty shocked and numbed us all with its utter brutality, ruthlessness, and disdain for human life, according to Dipti Jain, the global protest organizer.
Ms. Jain, a former student of the Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital who is currently a British citizen, coordinated a demonstration by female doctors in the UK last month.
The trainee's case is scheduled for hearing again on Monday by the Supreme Court.
Activists claim that the Kolkata case demonstrates how women are still victims of sexual abuse, despite the introduction of stricter legislation following the horrific gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student in New Delhi in 2012.
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