Access to Justice (司法公正)

北京“民告官” 乡镇政府败诉率居首 (Beijing's high court issues 2014 report on administrative lawsuits, village and township government litigants are most frequent losers)
People’s Daily, May 13, 2015
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2015/0513/c1001-26992467.html

Tiger chairs, electric batons, and chili oil: report finds Chinese police are still torturing suspects
Vice News, May 13, 2015
https://news.vice.com/article/tiger-chairs-electric-batons-and-chili-oil-report-finds-chinese-police-are-still-torturing-suspects

Related:
人权观察：警察刑讯在中国仍普遍存在 (Human Rights Watch: Police torture is still common in China)
Voice of America, May 14, 2015
http://www.voachinese.com/media/video/voaweishi-news-china-rights-20150513/2765793.html

Tiger Chairs and Cell Bosses: police torture of criminal suspects in China
Human Rights Watch, May 13, 2015
http://www.hrw.org/node/134845

内蒙古开通蒙汉双语12348热线 打造公共法律服务平台 (Inner Mongolia launches Mongolian-Chinese bilingual hotline as a public legal service platform)
Legal Daily, May 14, 2015
http://npc.people.com.cn/n/2015/0514/c14576-26999343.html

家庭暴力引发“母亲杀子”悲剧 北京二中院昨公开审理此案 (Beijing court hears case of mother killing son in family with history of domestic violence)
China Women's News, May 13, 2015
http://www.china-woman.com/2015-05/14/content_62361.htm

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

China’s taxi drivers force local governments to take action against ride hailing apps
China Labour Bulletin, May 14, 2015
http://www.clb.org.hk/en/content/china%E2%80%99s-taxi-drivers-force-local-governments-take-action-against-ride-hailing-apps

China workers said to protest pay at indebted state firm
Bloomberg Business, May 12, 2015
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-12/china-workers-said-to-protest-pay-at-indebted-state-firm

Related:
Chinese machinery workers protest proposed layoffs
Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2015
http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-machinery-workers-protest-against-proposed-layoffs-1431534642

Government Accountability, (政府问责)

北京設追逃辦實行一人一方案 外逃實行季度零報告 (Beijing establishes office for tracking down fugitives, aims to have zero overseas fugitives in quarterly report)
Beijing News, May 14, 2015
http://politics.people.com.cn/BIG5/n/2015/0514/c1001-26997978.html

China’s Communist party is struggling to guard against corruption: graft-buster
South China Morning Post, May 13, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1795175/chinas-top-graft-buster-likens-battle-against

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

China to increase video surveillance in security push
Reuters, May 13, 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/13/us-china-security-idUSKBN0NY1F420150513

China imposes smartwatch and wearable tech army ban
British Broadcasting Corporation, May 13, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32718266

Hong Kong (香港)

香港政改民調爭論：學者堅稱民調可信 (Debate over HK political reform polling system: academics firmly reiterate reliability of the poll)
British Broadcasting Corporation, May 14, 2015
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/trad/china/2015/05/150514_hk_political_reform_poll

香港保安局：1003人因去年 因占中”被捕 (HK Security Bureau: 1,003 people arrested in connection with last year’s Occupy Movement)
Radio Free Asia, May 13, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/Xinwen/15-05132015150810.html

Counterterrorism (反恐)

上海成立民兵无人机侦察分队 可用于救灾反恐 (Shanghai establishes people’s militia drone reconnaissance squad for use in emergency response and counterterrorism)
Beijing Youth Daily, May 13, 2015
http://news.hexun.com/2015-05-14/175817788.html

东盟地区论坛在南宁召开反恐与打击跨国犯罪会议 (Nanning, Guangxi holds ASEAN Regional Forum to discuss counterterrorism and combatting transnational crime)
Xinhua, May 14, 2015
http://world.people.com.cn/n/2015/0514/c1002-27002115.html

Related:
ARF meeting on anti-terrorism convenes in Nanning
Xinhua, May 14, 2015
http://english.chinamil.com.cn/news-channels/today-headlines/2015-05/14/content_6491624.htm

Opinion and Editorial (观点和社论)

China’s feminist awakening
The New York Times, May 13, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/opinion/xiao-meili-chinas-feminist-awakening.html

For whom the bell tolls: one Chinese NGO’s alleged crime of “illegal business operation”
China Change, May 13, 2015
http://chinachange.org/2015/05/13/to-whom-the-bell-tolls-one-chinese-ngos-alleged-crime-of-illegal-business-operation/

郭玉闪和土气的传知行 (Guo Yushan and the homegrown Transition Institute)
Jin Caiyuan (WeChat), May 14, 2015
http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA3OTYwMjE3Mg==&mid=205520704&idx=1&sn=f06cd6a1474cd87d2eb429b0682fb566#rd