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.

Thursday, October 20, 2005

October 20, 2005


News

Children-Children trafficking
China Auction Web Site Offers Babies for Sale
Reuters via YahooNews.com, 20/10/2005
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051020/wr_nm/
china_baby_dc;_ylt=Aj7zlQW_qPeakcf5C

Xhk4vgBxg8F;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMT
Q4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA—


Children-Adoption
Families That Adopt Orphans Find Love Doesn't Come Easily
家庭助养 想说爱你不容易
Legal Daily, 20/10/2005
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/misc/2005-10/20
/content_207866.htm


Death Penalty
Death for 7 Leaders of Child Theft Network
SCMP, 20/10/2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZ55RL6UEE.html

Death Penalty, Forced Confessions and Harvesting Organs of Executed Prisoners: German and Chinese Scholars Break the Taboo in Open Discussion
死刑、刑讯和取死囚器官:中德学者北京破禁忌
Chinesenewsnet.com, 19/10/2005
http://www1.chinesenewsnet.com/gb/MainNews
/SinoNews/Mainland/2005_10_19_14_

47_58_427.html

Detention-Peng Ming(彭明)/State Security-Terrorism
Peng Ming's Letter of Self Defense
本台独家报道:彭明自我辩护书
Radio Free Asia, 20/10/2005
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/
2005/10/18/pengmin/


Detention-Zhang Lin (張林)
Rights Activist: Chinese Lawyers, Where is Your Conscience?
赵达功:中国律师的良心何在?
Peacehall, 18/10/2005
http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/pubvp
/2005/10/200510181754.shtml


Human Rights-Bilateral ties
They Say, We Say: the Two Views of Political Reform
SCMP, 20/10/2005
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZD5RL6UEE.html

Law
How Valid Is it to Pass Verdicts Based on Precedents?
先例判决推广价值有多大
Legal Daily, 20/10/2005
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/misc/2005-10
/20/content_207867.htm


Law-Legal reform
Reform of Criminal Procedural Law Breaks New Ground
刑事诉讼法修改形成新说
Legal Daily, 20/10/2005
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/misc/2005-10/2
0/content_207950.htm


Media-Press freedom/censorship
China Ranks 9th Worst Country for Protecting Press Freedom in 2005
中國2005新聞自由全球倒數第九
BBC.com (Chinese), 20/10/2005
http://news8.thdo.bbc.co.uk/chinese/trad/hi/ne
wsid_4350000/newsid_4359000/4359058

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Media-Internet
Concerns Raised Over Liu Xiaobo's Open Letter Blaming Yahoo! for Shi
Tao's Detention
刘晓波批雅虎公开信引起关注
Radio Free Asia, 20/10/2005
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao
/2005/10/19/liuxiaobo/


Politics
White Paper Just a Big Lie: Activists
SCMP, 20/10/2005
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZEVC9ETEE.html

Analysis of White Paper on Building Political Democracy in China
评析中国民主政治建设白皮书
Voice of America, 19/10/2005
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/2005-10-19-voa57.cfm

Poverty
Is China Headed for a Gini 'Red Alert'?
Asia Times Online, 20/10/2005
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_B
usiness/GJ20Cb01.html


Spread the Wealth
Los Angeles Times, 19/10/2005
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-china19oct19,0,3378309.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials
china19oct19,0,3378309.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials

Protests and Petitions
CHINA: Journalists Divided Over Condemnation
Asia Media via China Digital News, 20/10/2005
http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=31786

Protests and Petitions
Violent End to Dispute Over Land
SCMP, 20/10/2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZFCB9ETEE.html

What Is the Cause of Rural Unrest in China?
中国农村抗议活动根源何在?
Voice of America, 20/10/2005
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/w2
005-10-19-voa80.cfm


Villagers in Guangdong's Taishi Slam Official Verdict on Standoff
Radio Free Asia, 19/10/2005
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/social/200
5/10/19/china_taishi/


Religion-Christianity
Chinese Bishop Writes Letter to Thank Pope for Invitation to Conference
中国主教致函罗马教皇谢赴会邀请
Voice of America, 19/10/2005
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/w2005-1
0-19-voa54.cfm