Activist Seeks Us Help

When Bangladeshi blogger and social activist Ashif Entaz Rabi hosted a TV talk show about a slaying of a publisher by Islamic extremists, he faced a torrent of threatening phone calls. He says young men with earpieces started loitering outside his workplace, and a militant website urged followers to "send this Ashif to Allah."

Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng is planning to write a book about his life and his quest for human rights in his native country. Mr Chen has three goals, spokesman Matt Dorf said on Thursday: to spread his message for greater freedom in China, to help support his family and to raise money to contribute to human rights organizations.

Activist Chen Guangcheng told Agence France Presse (AFP) on Thursday that he did not feel safe in China despite assurances made under a deal to remove him from the US embassy, pleading for American help to take him abroad.

President Barack Obama imposed US sanctions on Monday on those who help Syria and Iran track dissidents through cell phones and computers, serving notice on technology providers that they could be held responsible for those governments' human rights abuses. Obama's announcement underscored how democracy activists have used social media tools in pr...

When Bangladeshi blogger and social activist Ashif Entaz Rabi hosted a TV talk show about a slaying of a publisher by Islamic extremists, he faced a torrent of threatening phone calls. He says young men with earpieces started loitering outside his workplace, and a militant website urged followers to "send this Ashif to Allah."

Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng is planning to write a book about his life and his quest for human rights in his native country. Mr Chen has three goals, spokesman Matt Dorf said on Thursday: to spread his message for greater freedom in China, to help support his family and to raise money to contribute to human rights organizations.

Activist Chen Guangcheng told Agence France Presse (AFP) on Thursday that he did not feel safe in China despite assurances made under a deal to remove him from the US embassy, pleading for American help to take him abroad.

President Barack Obama imposed US sanctions on Monday on those who help Syria and Iran track dissidents through cell phones and computers, serving notice on technology providers that they could be held responsible for those governments' human rights abuses. Obama's announcement underscored how democracy activists have used social media tools in pr...