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, September 17, 2009

September 17, 2009

News
Bilateral Ties
US Makes China One of Its Four Top Targets for Spying
South China Morning Post, September 17, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=7d00ad700c3c3210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

US Military 'Cautiously Optimistic' on Relations
South China Morning Post, September 17, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=fc8d772a7c3c3210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Human Rights Defenders
四中全会和国庆期间异见人士遭监控 (Dissidents Monitored during the CPC Central Committee Session and National Day)
Voice of America, September 16, 2009
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/2009-09-16-voa28.cfm

浙江公安全力打压 多位民主党人被软禁 (Zhejiang PSB Suppresses Dissidents, Democrats Put under House Arrest)
Radio Free Asia, September 16, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/daya-09162009130352.html

Media
China Boosts ‘Great Firewall’
Radio Free Asia, September 16, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/gfw-09162009120149.html

Protests and Petitions
北京严控访民 比奥运更甚 (Beijing Monitoring Petitioners More Closely than during Olympics)
Radio Free Asia, September 17, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/fangmin-09152009133721.html

Public Health
China's "Cancer Villages" Bear Witness to Economic Boom
Reuters, September 17, 2009
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE58G00B20090917

Discarded Factory Chemicals Kill 3 in East China
Associated Press, September 16, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090916/ap_on_re_as/as_china_killer_waste

Hepatitis B Carrier Gets OK to Work in Food Industry
China Daily, September 17, 2009
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-09/17/content_8701429.htm

福建儿童血铅超标近千家长乡政府示威 (Around One Thousand Fujianese Parents Protest outside Government Buildings against High Levels of Lead in Children's Blood)
Radio Free Asia, September 17, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/qian-09152009133455.html

Religion
山西省临汾市家庭教会聚会场所遭警察捣毁 几十名信徒被打伤 (House Church in Shanxi Destroyed by Local Police, Tens of Believers Beaten and Injured)
Radio Free Asia, September 16, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/jiaohui-09162009161226.html

XUAR
中国称在新疆破获恐怖团伙6人被捕 (China Says It Has Arrested 6 Terrorists in XUAR)
British Broadcasting Corporation, September 16, 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/simp/hi/newsid_8250000/newsid_8258800/8258834.stm