Thursday, December 31, 2015

Access to Justice (司法公正)

Fast food chain supplier stands trial over meat scandal
Xinhua, December 30, 2015
http://english.sina.com/2015/1230/877508.html

Access to Information (信息公开)

China Holds 23 Journalists, 84 Bloggers in 2015: Press Freedom Report
无国界记者:今年全球110记者遇难 中国囚23人
Radio Free Asia, December 30, 2015
EN: http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-journalists-12302015120019.html
CH: http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/meiti/xl1-12302015104243.html

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

女权人士武嵘嵘外游未请假 杭州警方令其“写检讨” (Feminist activist Wu Rongrong leaves her province for holidays without “authorization,” Hangzhou police make her write a “self-reflection”)
Radio Free Asia, December 30, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/yf3-12302015120827.html

中国镇压维权律师受影响人数增至316人 (China's crackdown on human rights lawyers: Number of affected people rises to 316)
Voice of America, December 31, 2015
http://www.voachinese.com/content/china-crackdown-lawyers-20151230/3124962.html

China's petitioners risk official ire to pursue complaints in Beijing
Radio Free Asia, December 30, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-petitioners-12302015130558.html

七人声援浦志强被以“寻衅滋事”刑拘 (7 supporters of rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang criminally detained for “picking quarrels and provoking troubles”)
Radio Free Asia, December 30, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/ql1-12302015104914.html

Government Accountability (政府问责)

U.S. downplayed evidence of abuses in Chinese detention camps
Legal Daily, December 30, 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-humantrafficking-china-insight-idUSKBN0UD1MD20151230

法媒总编联署谴责北京以莫须有罪名驱逐高洁 (Chief editors of French media denounce Beijing for using trumped-up charges to expel journalist Gauthier)
Radio France Internationale, December 30, 2015
http://cn.rfi.fr/中国/20151230-法媒联署谴责北京以莫须有罪名驱逐高洁

Hong Kong (香港)

港大校友關注組和港大學教師及職員會:對李國章出任港大校委會主席感到極度憤怒 (HKU alumni concern group and staff association express intense anger towards Arthur Li's appointment as governing council chair)
InMedia HK, December 31, 2015
http://www.inmediahk.net/node/1039777

Related:
Critics, allies line up as Arthur Li appointed Hong Kong University’s governing council chairman
South China Morning Post, December 31, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1896674/very-poor-choice-howls-protest-arthur-li