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, November 12, 2015

Access to Justice (司法公正)

稳步推进行政审判体制改革破解民告官三难, 广东行政案件集中管辖完成布局(Steadily promoting reform of administrative trial system to resolve 3 difficulties in citizen suits against the government, centralized jurisdiction over Guangdong administrative cases is completely laid out)
Legal Daily, November 10, 2015
http://epaper.legaldaily.com.cn/fzrb/content/20151110/Articel05003GN.htm

小区四租户被误认为贼, 保安遭刑讯逼供11小时被抓 (Security guards detained for torturing 4 neighborhood tenants for 11 hours to obtain “confession” that they were thieves)
Fuzhou Evening News , November 10, 2015
http://www.mnw.cn/news/fz/1026498.html

Beijing court clears newspapers of defaming “World Luxury Association”
Caixin, November 10, 2015
http://english.caixin.com/2015-11-10/100872613.html

"Picking quarrels and provoking trouble" in Barme, Jaivin & Goldkorn (eds) “China Story Yearbook 2014: Shared Destiny”
ANU, Australian Centre on China in the World, November 11, 2015
http://press.anu.edu.au/titles/china-story-yearbook/shared-destiny/pdf-download/