The French government has condemned the violence that erupted in the French suburb of Trappes over the country's face veil ban while also ardently defending the provocative, discriminatory law which caused the unrest. Clashes between Muslim protestors and police occurred following the arrest of a Muslim man whose wife was fined by a police officer for wearing the niqab.

Reuters and Al-Jazeera reported that on Sunday 21st of July, large numbers of women demonstrated in Cairo against the killing of three women on Friday 19th July during a pro-Morsi rally in the city of Mansoura. The female protestors were also calling the Egyptian military leadership to re-instate Morsi to his presidency status. The deaths of the women occurred during clashes between supporters of the deposed president and his opponents.

On the 2nd of July 2013, Interfax News Agency reported the arrest of three women working with the Islamic political party Hizb ut Tahrir in the Osh region of Kyrgyzstan. The three women, all of which are students, are reported to be aged between 18 and 20 years. They have all been accused of distributing "extremist" material and uploading Islamic videos on YouTube.

On the 17th of May 2013, Russian TV, the UK Guardian and other media agencies reported on the publishing of a horrific video showing several boys under the age of ten, beaten with a belt and kicked by two teenage caretakers in a Russian orphanage. The appalling incident happened in the Mazanovsky orphanage in the region of Amur. According to an anonymous member at the orphanage...