February 2011

For his role in galvanizing protests through a Facebook group, which earned him 12 days in police detention, Google executive Wael Ghonim became a hero of the Egyptian revolution.

The U.S. ambassador to Beijing, who is sizing up a run for the White House, stood outside a Chinese court on Friday and criticized it for rejecting the appeal of an American jailed on industrial spying charges.

Cambodia must ensure it offers a safe haven to asylum seekers, rights groups say, following the government’s closure this week of a United Nations-run refugee centre, home to dozens of Montagnards from Vietnam.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned governments from China to Syria on Tuesday that blocking the Internet ultimately would backfire, damaging their economies and creating pent-up demands that would boil over in demonstrations like those that have swept the Middle East and North Africa.