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.

Friday, August 04, 2017

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

China has over 700,000 social organizations
China Daily, August 3, 2017
http://english.sina.com/news/2017-08-03/detail-ifyiswpt5175170.shtml

访民上访遭殴打鼻梁骨折 (Petitioner beaten while protesting, nose fractured)
Radio Free Asia, August 2, 2017
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/yf1-08022017101424.html

国家信访局发布《依法分类处理信访诉求工作规则》(State Bureau for Letters and Calls issues “Work Regulations According to Classification of Petitions”)
China News, August 2, 2017
https://www.chinanews.com/gn/2017/08-02/8294153.shtml

Related:
北京市信访工作“五大系统”助力疏解非首都功能过程中社会矛盾的预防和化解 (Beijing Office of Letters and Calls “Five Systems” to help prevent and defuse non-capital social conflicts)
Xinhua, August 3, 2017
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2017-08/03/c_129671855.htm

湛江万人上街抗议光伏项目遭镇压 数十人被抓捕打伤 (Tens of thousands protest in the street against solar panel project in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, dozens arrested)
Radio Free Asia, August 3, 2017
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/huanjing/xl3-08032017103616.html