Friday, June 12, 2015

Access to Justice (司法公正)

China ex-security chief Zhou Yongkang sentenced to life in prison, will not appeal
South China Morning Post, June 11, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1820280/life-jail-chinas-disgraced-security-tsar

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Zhou Yongkang trial exposes Chinese officials' links with mystic
The Guardian, June 11, 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/11/zhou-yongkang-trial-exposes-chinese-officials-links-with-mystic

周永康案:備受關注但無法了解的秘密 (Zhou Yongkang case: secrets under spotlight but not to be understood)
British Broadcasting Corporation, June 12, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/china/2015/06/150612_china_zhou_yongkang

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秘密審訊 周永康免死 (In secret trial, Zhou Yongkang escapes death sentence)
Mingpao, June 12, 2015
http://news.mingpao.com/pns/秘密審訊%20%20周永康免死-收賄1.6億3罪成立囚終身不上訴/web_tc/article/20150612/s00001/1434044910470

程翔:周永康判刑輕 沒提薄熙來避重就輕 (Commentator Ching Cheong: Zhou Yongkang’s sentence lighter than expected, crucial point avoided by not mentioning Bo Xilai)
Radio Television Hong Kong, June 11, 2015
http://rthk.hk/rthk/news/expressnews/20150611/news_20150611_55_1106845.htm

湖南司法行政戒毒系统发挥“三大帮教”效用--“攻心”戒治助力战胜毒魔 (Hunan Justice Administration Drug Treatment System rolls out “3 mentors” program to help overcome drug addiction)
Legal Daily, June 11, 2015
http://epaper.legaldaily.com.cn/fzrb/content/20150611/Articel02008GN.htm

Access to Information (信息公开)

鄂尔多斯市政府信息公开暂行办法 (Ordos government, Inner Mongolia, issues temporary OGI measures)
Ordos News, June 11, 2015
http://health.gmw.cn/newspaper/2015-06/11/content_107221615.htm

网络电视须配备节目审查人员
China to require Internet video providers to have program censors on staff
Jinghua Times, June 11, 2015
CH: http://epaper.jinghua.cn/html/2015-06/11/content_206133.htm
EN: http://chinascope.org/main/content/view/7199/108/

Government Accountability (政府问责)

Calls grow for Aung San Suu Kyi to “talk democracy” to Beijing
Radio Free Asia, June 11, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/calls-06112015133050.html

Travel ban on China's power queen
The Standard, June 12, 2015
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=21&art_id=157910&sid=44649531&con_type=1&d_str=20150612

China orders inquiry into deaths of children who swallowed pesticide
The Guardian, June 12, 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/12/china-inquiry-deaths-children-swallowed-pesticide

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

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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/

Opinion and Editorial (观点和社论)

专访笑蜀:公民运动与中国转型(下) (Interview with Xiao Shu: civil movements and China’s transition (Part 2))
Financial Times, June 12, 2015
http://www.ftchinese.com/story/001062482