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/

Access to Information (信息公开)

泰州“身价千万”官员任前公示后不能没有下文 (Taizhou's official who was “worth a fortune” must disclose assets prior to assuming an official post)
Legal Daily, November 10, 2015
http://www.yangtse.com/jiangsu/2015-11-10/699944.html

Sensitive words: The two-child policy
China Digital Times, November 10, 2015
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2015/11/sensitive-words-the-two-child-policy/

Good journalist, bad journalist
China Media Project, November 10, 2015
http://cmp.hku.hk/2015/11/10/39328/

Divergent views: How the Taiwanese and China media reacted to the historic leaders meeting
The Interpreter, November 11, 2015
http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2015/11/11/Divergent-views-How-the-Taiwanese-and-China-media-reacted-to-the-historic-leaders-meeting.aspx

Welcome to Facebook, Taiwan poll candidate tells Chinese as posts flood in
Reuters, November 11. 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/11/us-taiwan-china-facebook-idUSKCN0T00ND20151111

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

“Hungry” workers sleep on street, protest after Shenzhen toy factory boss absconds
Radio Free Asia, November 10, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-toymakers-11102015143113.html

Viewers criticize Chinese TV handling of historic presidents' meeting
Voice of America, November 12, 2015
http://www.voanews.com/content/xi-jinping-ma-ying-jeou-china-television-president/3051805.html

Some good news regarding the Overseas NGO Management Law Draft and the long-awaited Charity Law
NGOs in China, November 11, 2015
http://ngochina.blogspot.hk/2015/11/some-good-news-regarding-overseas-ngo.html

Government Accountability (政府问责)

China still uses medieval torture methods against opponents—Amnesty
The Guardian, November 11, 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/11/china-still-uses-medieval-torture-methods-against-opponents-amnesty

Related:
Parallel submission to the Committee Against Torture in advance of the review of the PRC's fifth report
Human Rights in China, November 2015
http://www.hrichina.org/sites/default/files/hric-cat-2015_report.pdf

Lawyer: I was tortured by Chinese police
British Broadcasting Corporation, November 12, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34794712

中国:酷刑和刑讯逼供在律师权利被蓄意践踏的浪潮中猖獗肆虐
China: No end in sight—Torture and forced confessions in China
Amnesty International, November 11, 2015
CH: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa17/2848/2015/zh/
EN: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/ASA17/2730/2015/en/

人权组织:中国普遍存在酷刑 嫌犯律师都遭殃 (Rights Group: Use of torture widespread in China, detained lawyers have all suffered from it)
Deutsche Welle, November 12, 2015
http://bit.ly/1Y75WV8

CPC in Tibet aims to punish Dalai Lama followers
China Digital Times, November 11, 2015
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2015/11/communist-party-tibet-aims-punish-dalai-lama-followers/

Related:
中共在西藏“整风”,查处党内达赖喇嘛追随者 (CPC to carry out “rectification” in Tibet and punish party members who follow Dalai Lama)
New York Times, November 12, 2015
http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20151112/c12dalailama/

Chinese authorities expel nuns from Jada convent in Tibet
Radio Free Asia, November 10, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/chinese-authorities-expel-nuns-from-jada-convent-in-tibet-11102015164634.html

Graft probes hit top officials in Beijing and Shanghai
China Digital Times, November 11, 2015
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2015/11/corruption-probes-hit-top-officials-in-beijing-and-shanghai/

Guideline on preventing erosion of state assets
Xinhua, November 10, 2015
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-11/10/c_134802821.htm

China's oppression, Inc.
The Diplomat, November 11, 2015
http://thediplomat.com/2015/11/chinas-oppression-inc/

Fake graft inspector featured in newspaper owned by China’s supreme prosecutor
South China Morning Post, November 11, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1877874/bogus-graft-inspector-featured-newspaper-belonging-chinas-supreme

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

Blocked Internet firms on Chinese charm offensive
Hong Kong Free Press, November 11, 2015
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/11/11/blocked-internet-firms-on-chinese-charm-offensive/

Hong Kong (香港)

香港铜锣湾书店老板“人间蒸发”震撼出版界 (Disappearance of HK Causeway Bay bookshop owner shocks publishing industry)
British Broadcasting Corporation, November 11, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/china/2015/11/151111_hongkong_publishing_disappearance

Hong Kong district council elections 2015—SCMP Page
South China Morning Post, November 3, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/topics/hong-kong-district-council-elections-2015

Related:
The 2015 HK District Council elections: introduction to candidates
Webb-site, November 3, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7wUhNOcuj4

Hong Kong Occupy activists taking on pro-establishment camp in elections hope to build bridges
South China Morning Post, November 12, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1877895/hong-kong-occupy-activists-taking-pro-establishment-camp

Hong Kong democracy activists plan UN case over police “torture”
Hong Kong Free Press, November 11, 2015
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/11/11/hong-kong-democracy-activists-plan-un-case-over-police-torture/

Counterterrorism (反恐)

俄罗斯总检察长建议制定国际反恐公约 (Russian Prosecutor General suggests establishment of International Convention on Counterterrorism)
Xinhua, November 10, 2015
http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2015-11/10/c_1117101723.htm

Related:
Russia monitors financial transfers to countries with active terrorist groups—prosecutor
TASS Russian News Agency, November 10, 2015
http://tass.ru/en/world/835083

"Terrorism and violence in and from Xinjiang" 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/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ch06_forum_wang.pdf

Opinion and Editorial (观点和社论)

Burma’s election leaves former patron China with uncomfortable questions
Washington Post, November 11, 2015
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/burmas-election-leaves-former-patron-china-with-uncomfortable-questions/2015/11/11/337c7fe6-831f-468d-8a08-4b26f528d217_story.html

Just where should Gao Zhisheng live?
China Change, November 11, 2015
http://chinachange.org/2015/11/11/just-where-should-gao-zhisheng-live/

After the one-Child policy: What happens to China’s family-planning bureaucracy?
Wall Street Journal, November 12, 2015
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/11/12/after-the-one-child-policy-what-happens-to-chinas-family-planning-bureaucracy/

中国道德重建的最大障碍 (The biggest obstacle to China’s moral reconstruction)
Voice of America, November 12, 2015
http://www.voachinese.com/content/china-moral-reconstruction-faced-with-obstacles/3053837.html