In February, following a number of killings by suspected Islamist militants in Egypt’s North Sinai Governorate, including seven murders in the city of El-Arish, dozens of Coptic Christian families fled the province. About 250 family members ended up taking refuge in a church in Ismailiya in the northeast.

On Feb. 26, militants distributed a video warning of more attacks on Egypt’s Coptic Christians, a group comprising 10% of the country’s population. 

In Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, bus drivers and truckers began protesting in late February after a court passed a life sentence on a bus driver responsible for an accident in 2011 that left five people dead, including a filmmaker and a journalist.

On Feb. 28, hundreds of drivers held a strike at the country’s largest bus station and brought traffic to a halt. The next day, protests turned violent, vehicles were torched, and police fired riot guns and tear gas at the crowd....

Protests against police brutality in the southwestern-Paris suburb of Les Ulis turned violent on Feb. 13 when rioters attacked a police station with rocks and firebombs. Police responded with tear gas and arrested dozens of people during the riots. 

Protests began after a black youth was allegedly assaulted and sodomized by a truncheon while being called racial epithets during his arrest on Feb. 2. The victim’s injuries required a lengthy hospital stay. One of the arresting...