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, August 10, 2017

Commentary (评论)

從劉曉波死訊看大陸社交媒體的管控 (Death of Liu Xiaobo shows how censorship of mainland social media works)
Mingpao, August 10, 2017
https://news.mingpao.com/ins/instantnews/web_tc/article/20170810/s00022/1502328849585

What happened to Apple’s moral backbone?
Fortune, August 8, 2017
http://fortune.com/2017/08/08/apple-china-iphone-vpn-censorship-ban/

張曉明形容4人失議員資格是沉重打擊港獨分離勢力 (Zhang Xiaoming: DQ of four lawmakers is a heavy blow to the Hong Kong separatists)
Radio Television Hong Kong, August 9, 2017
http://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1347267-20170809.htm

反擊政府歪理 法律界要站出來 (The law community must stand up to government’s nonsense)
Inmediahk, August 10, 2017
https://www.inmediahk.net/node/1051274