Background: Ms. Huang helped dozens of women report cases of sexual assault and abuse online, battling censors and a male-dominated culture. The movement took on professors, television anchors, religious leaders and others.

In June, she wrote an essay about her experience attending the first big demonstration in Hong Kong. Two months later, the police on the mainland confiscated her passport and harassed her relatives, her friends said.

Bangladesh sentences 16 to death for a young woman’s burning

Nusrat Jahan Rafi accused a teacher of touching her inappropriately, then faced intense pressure to withdraw the accusations.

When she refused, she was doused with kerosene and set on fire. On the way to the hospital her brother recorded her naming her attackers. She died four days later, and her killing sent a shock wave across the country.

On Thursday, a Bangladeshi court sentenced 16 people, including the teacher she had accused of touching her, to death for her murder.

Context: Bangladesh, a somewhat conservative Muslim nation, is an especially difficult place to be a woman. Thousands of Bangladeshi women have had acid thrown in their faces for spurning men.