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.

Monday, September 19, 2016

Access to Information (信息公开)

Tibet is harder to visit than North Korea. But I got in and streamed live on Facebook.
The Washington Post, September 16, 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/09/16/in-tibet-the-door-cracks-opens-for-foreign-media-and-then-slams-shut-again/

Wukan protests: police deny violence against Hong Kong journalists in Chinese village crackdown
South China Morning Post, September 17, 2016
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2020299/police-deny-violence-against-hong-kong-journalists

Related:
香港記協抗議陸豐警方毆打驅趕港媒記者 (Hong Kong Journalists Association condemns Lufeng police’s violent expulsion of Hong Kong journalists)
British Broadcasting Corporation, September 15, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/china/2016/09/160915_hk_china_journalists