Photos Of The Week #10
A woman takes part in a flash mob dubbed The Rapist Is You to raise awareness of the high levels of violence and prejudice against women in Bucharest. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)
A participant in a rally to mark International Women's Day on March 8 is led away by police after the rally was attacked by masked men. Dozens of protesters were detained by police -- allegedly for their own protection -- while three suspected hooligans were also detained. (RFE/RL/Gulzhan Turbubaeva)
A city worker disinfects a bus stop against the new coronavirus in Tehran. Iran has one of the highest death tolls in the world from the new coronavirus outside of China, the epicenter of the outbreak. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
A wounded Syrian child sits in a makeshift clinic in the town of Maaret Misrin following air strikes by Syrian government forces in the country's northwestern Idlib Province. (AFP/Aref Tammawi)
Afghan men cry at a hospital after they heard that their relative was killed during an attack in Kabul on March 6. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
Hindu devotees play with ash and colors at a cremation ground on the banks of River Ganges in Varanasi, India. (AP/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
Activists of the Declic movement for women's rights hold printed half-face pictures showing victims of domestic violence during a protest in Bucharest on March 4. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu)
A Muslim pilgrim feeds pigeons outside the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca on March 5. (AP/Amr Nabil)
A Georgian man carries a portrait of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin during a service marking the 67th anniversary of his death in a church in his hometown of Gori on March 5. (epa-EFE/Zurab Kurtsikidze)
A Russian Communist Party supporter holds a banner with portraits of Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin during a memorial ceremony at Stalin's tomb on Red Square in Moscow on March 5. (AFP/Aleksandr Nemenov)
Protesters wear gas masks in front of the Romanian Environment Ministry in Bucharest on March 4 demanding better air quality. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu)
South Korean soldiers spray disinfectant in the street as a precaution against the spread of the novel coronavirus in Seoul on March 4. (epa-EFE/Jeon Heon-kyun)
A migrant waits near the Evros River, near Edirne, in northwestern Turkey, to take a boat to attempt to enter Greece by crossing the river on March 3. (AFP/Ozan Kose)
A man climbs up a pole to get a prize during celebrations of Maslenitsa, or Pancake Week, in Veliky Novgorod, Russia. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)
A migrant man holding a child is seen behind barbed wire as migrants and refugees gather on the Turkish side of the closed Kastanies border crossing between Greece and Turkey. (epa-EFE/Dimitris Tosidis)
A young girl at a rally for U.S. President Donald Trump in Charlotte, North Carolina. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)
A woman reacts as police officers detain a man during a rally for supporters of jailed Kyrgyz politician Sadyr Japarov in central Bishkek. (Reuters/Vladimir Pirogov)
Police in Kazakhstan detained more than 60 people in Almaty on March 1 after an activist's death in jail triggered diplomatic condemnation and calls for anti-government rallies. The protests were called after Dulat Agadil, a prominent activist, died in detention hours after he was detained by plainclothes police. (AFP/Ruslan Pryanikov)
People storm a snow fortress during the celebrations of Maslenitsa or Shrovetide close to the village of Khlyupino, some 60 kilometers outside of Moscow, on March 1. Shrovetide or Maslenitsa, an ancient farewell ceremony to winter traditionally celebrated in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, involves the burning of a large effigy. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
A migrant from Afghanistan holds his daughter as they wait on a roadside near Turkey's Ipsala border crossing with Greece. (Reuters/Murad Sezer)
Municipal workers clean the bas-relief of former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev in Almaty. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev)
An Iranian woman wearing face mask and protective gloves walks in Tehran. (epa-EFE/Abedin Taherkenareh)