- Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis gathered in cities and towns across the country yesterday to protest what they consider President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s latest attempt to avoid stepping down.
- In Egypt, student unions of 20 public universities protested Tuesday in support of professors’ call for academic independence.
- On Monday, the sacked teachers and staff of the National University in Bangladesh held a rally and staged a sit-in demonstration on the campus in Gazipur.
- About two-dozen anti-BART protesters marched along San Francisco’s Market Street Monday evening in the fifth consecutive weekly rush-hour demonstration organized by the hacker group “Anonymous.”
- In India, around 7,000 residents from coastal areas of Idinthakarai and other villages observed a massive hunger strike on Sunday to protest against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP).
- In Pakistan, dozens of squatters staged a sit-in on Sunday in a protest against the demolition of their houses on Saturday by district administration to clear the land for construction of a road.
- Several thousand Slovak teachers rallied yesterday in the capital Bratislava to protest low salaries.
- In the Philippines, eight political prisoners, including a woman, started an eight-day hunger strike in Iloilo on Tuesday as part of a nationwide protest to demand the release of all political detainees in the country.
- Almost the entire police force of a small town in southern Spain went on sick leave yesterday in a dispute over payments.
