The HRIC Daily Brief is a daily selection of news stories and commentary related to human rights in China, drawn from Chinese- and English-language news and online media sources that we monitor daily. In addition to headlines and source links, HRIC also provides English translation of Chinese headlines.

Friday, March 18, 2005

March 18, 2005

Top news of the day

Detention- Rebiya Kadeer
China Frees Uyghur Businesswoman Rebiya Kadeer
Radio Free Asia, 18 March, 2005
The Chinese government released Rebiya Kadeer, a Muslim woman who was serving a 10-year jail terms in China for sending news clips to overseas, a few days before the visit of the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/politics/2005/03/17/uyghur
_kadeer/

Freed Chinese dissident determined to fight for Uighur minority
AFP, March 18, 2005
http://story.chinanationalnews.com/p.x/ct/9/id/73b0252a3531a
47a/cid/9366300fc9319e9b/

Human rights – bilateral ties
US Forgoes Anti-China Human Rights UN Resolution
Voice of America, March 17, 2005
US Government decided to drop the motion in discrediting China’s human rights records in the upcoming UN Human Rights Commission meeting, claiming that the Chinese government has made significant and important steps to improve human rights conditions in the country.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-03-17-voa63.cfm




News

Children – child labour / industrial accidents
Investigation for child labour death cover-up in Hebei underway
河北栾城五女工死因调查
TheBeijingNews.com, March 15, 2005
http://www.thebeijingnews.com/news/2005/0315/08@025
804.html

The mystery of child labour died of asphyxiation in Hebei factory unveiled
剥开意外中毒事件重重谜团
Beijing Youth Daily, March 16, 2005
http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=4867524


Corruption
Why suspend death penalty to the corrupt official?
毕玉玺受贿上千万为何免于一死
EastDay.com, March 17, 2005
http://china.eastday.com/eastday/news/node37955/node37957/
node37979/node53310/userobject1ai942492.html

Death penalty
Law may demand compensation for wrongful death sentences, as Court admits wrongful charges to an innocent rape suspect 10 years ago
聂树斌死刑案官方首次表态 律师可能提出国家赔偿
People’s Daily, March 18, 2005
http://legal.people.com.cn/GB/42733/3252380.html


Death-penalty debate grips China after wrongful execution
Globe and Mail, March 18, 2005
When police executed a man named Nie Shubin in 1995, nobody bothered to tell his parents.
http://story.chinanationalnews.com/p.x/ct/9/id/7e6003d87d986
ed3/cid/9366300fc9319e9b/

Government – governance & accountability
Hubei to abolish advisory bodies
SCMP, March 18, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZ526K456E.html

Human rights – bilateral ties
U.S. sees improved rights in China
CNN, March 17, 2005
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/03/17/china.hum
anrights/index.html

Human rights – EU arms ban
EU reassures China over plans to lift arms ban
AFP via YahooNews.com, March 17, 2005
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050317/
wl_asia_afp/euchinaarms_050317203004

Labour – industrial accidents
18 dead, one missing as China sets up office to tackle mining accidents
AFP via YahooNews.com, March 18, 2005
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1530&
amp;ncid=731&e=2&u=/afp/20050318/wl_asia_afp/chinamineac
cident

Law
The conception of building a harmonious society in the rule of law
建构和谐社会的法律理念
Legal Daily, March 17, 2005
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/bm/2005-03/17/content_1968
97.htm

Legislation of corruption to be improved
我国贿赂犯罪立法的完善
Legal Daily, March 17, 2005
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/bm/2005-03/17/content_19689
5.htm

Report of the work of The Supreme People’s Procuratorate (full text)
最高人民检察院工作报告(附全文)
Legal Daily, March 18, 2005
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/xwzx/2005-03/18/content_1972
22.htm

Report of the work of the Supreme People’s Court (full text)
最高人民法院工作报告(附全文)
Legal Daily, March 18, 2005
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/xwzx/2005-03/18/content_1972
21.htm

Media – internet
Non-students barred from using popular university chat room
SCMP, March 18, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZORCF456E.html

Media- Press freedom
Editorial- Chinese Journalist in Peril
New York Times via China Digital News, 17 March, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/17/opinion/17thu3.html?ex=
1111726800&en=395c4fe6f4bfc78b&ei=5040&par
tner=MOREOVERFEATURES

Migrant workers
21 tortured migrant workers in Heilongjiang saved
黑龙江民工受虐续:警方救出21名民工[组图]
EastDay.com, March 18, 2005
http://china.eastday.com/eastday/news/node37955/node37957/
node37979/node53430/userobject1ai944640.html

Population policies- one child policy
When 'little emperors' become parents…
China Daily, 17 March, 2005
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-03/17/content
_425961.htm

Public health – HIV Aids
Ministry of Health to improve Aids patient database
卫生部将完善艾滋病患者和感染者的个案库
EastDay.com, March 17, 2005
http://china.eastday.com/eastday/news/node37955/node37957/
node37979/node53310/userobject1ai942471.html

Hong Kong
China should intervene in Hong Kong leader row: Chinese media
AFP via YahooNews.com, March 17, 2005
http://au.news.yahoo.com/050317/19/tjtz.html

Tibet
China must listen to the Dalai Lama, Tibetan exile spokesman says
AFP, Mar 18, 2005
China should listen to the Dalai Lama's pledge that he is not seeking independence for Tibet, a spokesman for the Tibetan government in exile said.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050318/wl_
sthasia_afp/indiatibetchina