Europe
Thousands march in Moscow against war drive
Some 10,000 people turned out in Moscow for an anti-Kremlin "March of Truth" to denounce Russian state television's coverage of the Ukraine crisis.
Greater Middle East
AI: Egypt president should reject anti-terror law
Amnesty International called upon interim president Adly Mansour to reject the new Egyptian anti-terror law, warning it can be used as a tool to root out dissent.
The Andes
Peru: Cajamarca repression sparks protests
Spontaneous protests broke out in the town of Celendín, in the highlands of Peru's Cajamarca region, after the arrest of six leaders of the struggle against the Conga gold project.
The Amazon
Peru: Shawi indigenous leader assassinated
Emilio Marichi Huansi, a traditional chief of Peru's Shawi people, was assassinated days before a community meeting he had called to discuss titling the group's ancestral lands.
Southern Cone
Squatter ‘mega-eviction’ rocks Rio de Janeiro
More than 1,500 Military Police were mobilized to evict thousands of squatters who had recently taken over an abandoned office complex in Rio de Janeiro.
Iran
Iran: political prisoners denied medical treatment
UN human rights experts voiced concern about lack of medical treatment for two political prisoners in Iran—a blogger and a dissident cleric—who are at risk of dying in detention.
Greater Middle East
Egypt: court upholds sentences of activists
An Egyptian appeals court upheld the jailing of three men who co-founded the "April 6" opposition movement that played a large role in the country's 2011 revolution.
South Asia
Sri Lanka: no cooperation with war crimes inquiry
Sri Lanka's foreign ministry announced that it will not cooperate with a UN investigation into alleged war crimes committed during the country's civil war.
The Andes
Colombia: land rights activist assassinated
A Colombian activist for restitution of usurped lands in the conflicted Urabá region was killed by presumed hired assassins—despite being under special government "protection."
The Andes
Peru: 24 arrested on Shining Path links
The leadership of Peru's Movement for Amnesty and Fundamental Rights (MOVADEF) was arrested in a joint police-army operation, accused of being Sendero Luminoso operatives.
Southern Cone
Paraguay: imprisoned campesinos on hunger strike
Five Paraguayan campesinos arrested during a violent squatter eviction in 2012 and held since then without trial are six weeks into a hunger strike.
Southern Cone
Paraguay: indigenous Aché people charge genocide
The Aché indigenous people of Paraguay brought suit in an Argentine court demanding reparations for "genocide" carried out under the late Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner.