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, June 12, 2015

Hong Kong (香港)

Hong Kong social media activists under fire as key electoral policy vote approaches
Global Voices, June 11, 2015
http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2015/06/12/hong-kong-social-media-activists-under-fire-as-key-electoral-policy-vote-approaches/

Elderly couple keep spirit of Hong Kong’s Occupy movement alive at former protest site
South China Morning Post, June 12, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1820481/elderly-couple-keep-spirit-hong-kongs-occupy-movement-alive

We won't repeat Occupy blockades, say anti-poll reform package protesters ahead of Hong Kong rally
South China Morning Post, June 12, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1820331/protesters-against-hong-kong-poll-reform-package-vow-no

Related:
Protest groups unhappy as cops get ready
The Standard, June 12, 2015
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=11&art_id=157929&sid=44648460&con_type=1&d_str=20150612

CY denies $300m bribes war chest claim
The Standard, June 11, 2015
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=15&art_id=157930&sid=44648977&con_type=1&d_str=20150612

Related:
中間人開價3億買票 誘議員袋住先 (Middleman asks HK$3 million for lawmaker’s yes-vote for political reform package)
Apple Daily, June 11, 2015
http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/news/first/20150611/19180384

法律界選委聯署對政改方案極度失望 (Legal group in Election Committee expresses extreme disappointment with proposed political reform)
Radio Television Hong Kong, June 11, 2015
http://rthk.hk/rthk/news/expressnews/20150611/news_20150611_55_1106855.htm

Related:
港政改表決倒數5天:林鄭指否決是退步 公務員公開籲否決 (5 days until HK political reform vote: public servants openly urge proposal’s rejection while Carrie Lam says doing so is regression)
South China Morning Post, June 12, 2015
http://www.nanzao.com/tc/hk-macau-tw/14de5fe6abd14d8/gang-zheng-gai-biao-jue-dao-shu-5-tian-lin-zheng-zhi-fou-jue-shi-tui-bu-gong-wu-yuan-gong-kai-yu-fou-jue

左報圍攻三大民調 斥鍾庭耀造假、入魔、販子 (Pro-Beijing leftwing newspapers attack 3 universities’ rolling poll, say director of HKU Public Opinion Program Robert Chung is a “fabricator, infatuator, monger”)
The Stand News, June 12, 2015
https://thestandnews.com/politics/左報圍攻三大民調-斥鍾庭耀瘋狂-民調販子/