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, February 05, 2010

February 05, 2010

Top news
Human Rights Defender – Gao Zhisheng (高智晟)

高智晟妻子耿和要求美国帮助她的丈夫 (Missing Lawyer Gao Zhisheng's Wife Calls on the U.S. to Help Her Husband)
Voice of America, February 04, 2010
http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/china/missing-lawyer-china-20100204-83541082.html
Related information:
Wife of Disappeared Lawyer Says to Chinese Government: Give Back My Husband
高智晟妻子对中国政府说:还我丈夫!
Human Rights in China, February 04, 2010
EN: http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/172970
CH: http://gb.hrichina.org/gate/gb/big5.hrichina.org/public/contents/18169

News
Bilateral Ties
The Careful Choreography of China-US Ties
British Broadcasting Corporation, February 05, 2010
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8499658.stm

Corruption
Beijing Internet Monitor Takes Bribes to Frame Software House
Global Times, February 05, 2010
http://china.globaltimes.cn/society/2010-02/503814.html

Death Penalty
25 Sentenced to Death over Kidnapping in S. China
Xinhua News Agency, February 04, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-02/04/content_9430893.htm

Gender
家暴投诉去年比前年要多 (Increased Number of Domestic Violence Cases Reported in Guangzhou in 2009)
Southern Metropolis Daily, February 05, 2010
http://epaper.nddaily.com/G/html/2010-02/05/content_1009774.htm

Hong Kong
Hong Kong Farewells Unique Activist Luo Haixing
The Times, February 05, 2010
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7016098.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797093

Law
Drama over Lawyer's Guilty Plea at Retrial
South China Morning Post, February 03, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=ef91f86831f86210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Media
New Guidelines for Child Porn on Internet and Texts
South China Morning Post, February 05, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=ddf25358e6996210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Multilateral
China Could Block Sanctions against Iran
The Washington Post, February 05, 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020404792_pf.html

Protests and Petitions
重庆访民集体控诉北京的“黑监狱” (Chongqing Petitioners File Complaint with the Beijing Police on Security Company Involved with Black Jails)
Radio Free Asia, February 04, 2010
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/fangmin-02042010141327.html

Police
福州访民揭劳教所黑幕 (Fujianese Petitioners Reveal Scandal inside Reeducation-Through-Labor Center)
Radio Free Asia, February 05, 2010
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/hei-02042010102014.html

Shanghai World Expo
Shanghai's Many Proud Pyjama-wearers Feeling the Heat Ahead of World Expo
South China Morning Post, February 05, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=aea25358e6996210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Tibet
Pilgrims and Progress
The Economist, February 04, 2010
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15452843

Dalai Lama to Visit White House 'This Month'
Sky News, February 04, 2010
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Dalai-Lama-To-Visit-Barack-Obama-At-White-House-Later-This-Month/Article/201002115542749