Thousands of Indian community members held protests in over 130 cities across 25 countries on Sunday, demanding justice for a trainee doctor who was raped and murdered last month at a Kolkata hospital.
The protests began in cities across Japan, Australia, Taiwan, and Singapore, later spreading to several European cities.
Around 60 demonstrations were planned in the United States itself.
These protests added to the ongoing outrage in India over the 9 August killing of a 31-year-old postgraduate chest medicine student.
A suspect has been arrested, along with the former principal of RG Kar Medical College, where the victim was studying.
In Stockholm, dozens of women dressed in black gathered at Sergels Torg square, singing Bengali songs and holding placards demanding justice and safety for women in India.
“The news of this heinous crime committed on a young trainee doctor while on duty numbed and shocked each of us at the sheer ruthlessness, brutality, and disregard for human life," said Dipti Jain, an organiser of the global protests.
Jain, a British citizen and alumna of Calcutta National Medical College, previously organised a female doctors' protest in the UK.
The Supreme Court is set to hear the case on Monday.
Although tougher laws were introduced after the 2012 gruesome gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus in New Delhi, activists say the Kolkata case shows how women continue to suffer from sexual violence.
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