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, August 26, 2005

August 26, 2005

Top news of the day

Xinjiang – Rebiya Kadeer / State Security -Terrorism
Exiled Uygur activist accused of terror plot
SCMP, 26/08/2005
Xinjiang party secretary Wang Lequen (王樂泉) publicly accused the exiled Uygur dissident Rebiya Kadeer of "conspiring with separatists and religious extremists" on ways to plan terror attacks in the region. Wang added that the the authorities had gathered enough evidence showing Rebiya Kadeer's close connection with terrorists activists overseas.
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZ8CDVRRCE.html






News

Death Penalty
Robbers, rapists and murderers executed in Beijing
北京一批搶劫、強姦、殺人重犯今天被執行死刑
CRI Online, 25/08/2005
http://big5.chinabroadcast.cn/gate/big5/gb.chinabroadcast.cn/
3821/2005/08/25/381@674252.htm

Corrupt official gets death penalty
China Daily, 26/08/2005
http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/26/cont
ent_472290.htm

Shanghai arsonists given severe punishment
China Daily, 26/08/2005
http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/26/cont
ent_472292.htm

Detentions
China may free dissident ahead of Hu's U.S. visit
Reuters, 26/08/2005
http://olympics.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=top
News&storyID=2005-08-26T081556Z_01_DIT629691_RTRI
DST_0_NEWS-CHINA-USA-VISIT-DC.XML

Gender - Gender equality
Chinese women: less than half of heaven
United Press International via China Digital, 25/08/2005
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/article_104378
8.php/Chinese_women_less_than_half_of_heaven

Government - Governance and accountability
5,000 Party officials disciplined Jan-June
Xinhuanet.com, 26/08/2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/25/content_340
4308.htm

Government - Civil service
Shanghai's new civil servants required intern practices in grassroots font size
People's Daily, 26/08/2005
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200508/26/eng20050826_
204688.html

Law - Criminal
Young offenders under age 18 to [be] free from detention in China
People’s Daily, 25/08/2005
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200508/25/eng20050825_20
4606.html

Labor - Disasters
Latest in grim series of China mine blasts kills 15
Reuters, 26/08/2005
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK268518.htm

Labor - Industrial accidents
Accidents claim 951 lives in first eight months
Xinhuanet.com, 25/08/2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/25/content_340
3288.htm

Law - Juvenile justice
Young offenders under age 18 to free from detention in China
People's Daily, 25/08/2005
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200508/25/eng20050825_
204606.html

Media - Press freedom/censorship
One more news company drops plan that extends broadcasting service to more Chinese provinces due to government pressures
中国限制境外媒体又一计划遭搁置
Voice of America, 25/08/2005
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/w2005-08-25-voa37.cfm

Protests and Petitions / Police
Police stop four AIDS protestors to make petitions at the Beijing Petition and Letter Office
四名艾滋病感染者在京上访遭公安殴打
Dajiyuan.com, 26/08/2005
http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/5/8/26/n1030871.htm

Protests and Petitions
Beijing set to demolish the Petitioner Village on the countryside
中国官方将清拆北京上访村
Radio Free Asia, 25/08/2005
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2005/08/25/
shangfang/

Poisoned village up in arms again
SCMP, 26/08/2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZ4MDURRCE.html





Protests and Petitions / Resettlement - Forceful eviction
Guangdong Nanhai villagers stage furious protests over forceful eviction
广东南海区村民抬棺抗议政府征地
Voice of America, 25/08/2005
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/w2005-08-25-voa57.cfm

Public Health
33 sentenced for illegal medical practice
Xinhuanet.com, 26/08/2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/25/content_340
3265.htm

Thirty-three Chinese sentenced for illegal medical practice
People’s Daily, 26/08/2005
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200508/26/print20050826
_204721.html

UN
UNHCR opens first Procurement Information Center in China
People's Daily, 26/08/2005
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200508/26/eng20050826
_204677.html

Xinjiang / State Security - Terrorism
Xinjiang crackdown on a terrorist group and shot dead the ring leader
新疆搗毀暴力恐怖團夥擊斃頭目阿布杜拉-庫爾班
CRI Online, 26/08/2005
http://big5.chinabroadcast.cn/gate/big5/gb.chinabroadcast.cn/
3821/2005/08/26/922@674653.htm