Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波)

Liu Xiaobo, China’s prescient dissident
The New Yorker, July 4, 2017
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/liu-xiaobo-chinas-prescient-dissident

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港支联会疾呼海外团体施压让刘晓波出国治疗 (Hong Kong Alliance urges overseas groups to pressure China for Liu Xiaobo to go abroad for treatment)
Voice of America, July 4, 2017
https://www.voachinese.com/a/hk-xiaobo-liu/3927347.html

瀋陽司法局：劉曉波正得到精心治療 (Shenyang Bureau of Justice: Liu Xiaobo is being taken good care of)
Apple Daily, July 4, 2017
http://www.appledaily.com.tw/realtimenews/article/new/20170704/1153872/

刘晓波正在得到精心治疗 (Liu Xiaobo is being taken good care of)
Shenyang Bureau of Justice, July 3, 2017
http://www.syssfj.gov.cn/cms/201707/149907055394287.html

Terminally ill Chinese dissident “not free”, wants to seek cancer treatment overseas
Radio Free Asia, July 3, 2017
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/dissident-07032017111153.html

刘晓波病情新报告 癌细胞或已骨转移 (Latest development of Liu Xiaobo’s condition, cancer cells spread to bones)
Radio France Internationale, July 3, 2017
http://cn.rfi.fr//中国/20170703-刘晓波病情新报告-癌细胞或已骨转移

耿爽稱不了解劉曉波案情 促西方國家尊重司法主權 (Foreign ministry: has no knowledge of Liu Xiaobo’s criminal case and urges the West to respect China’s judicial sovereignty)
Radio Television Hong Kong, July 3, 2017
http://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1339837-20170703.htm

Family of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo says he is well enough to travel abroad for treatment—HK NGO
Hong Kong Free Press, July 3, 2017
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/07/03/family-nobel-laureate-liu-xiaobo-says-well-enough-travel-abroad-treatment-hk-ngo/

德国政府：希望刘晓波得到一切必要的治疗 (German gov’t: Hopes Liu Xiaobo will receive all necessary treatment)
Deutsche Welle, July 3, 2017
http://www.dw.com/zh/德国政府希望刘晓波得到一切必要的治疗/a-39526251

Doubts arise over Chinese Nobel winner Liu Xiaobo's inability to travel for cancer treatment
South China Morning Post, July 3, 2017
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2101107/doubts-arise-over-chinese-nobel-winner-liu-xiaobos

Access to Justice (司法公正)

Gay Chinese man wins legal battle over forced conversion therapy
British Broadcasting Corporation, July 4, 2017
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40490946

刘少明“煽动颠覆国家政权罪案”将于2017年7月7日开庭宣判 (Liu Shaoming, charged of “inciting subversion of state power,” expects to hear verdict on July 7, 2017)
Weiquanwang, July 4, 2017
http://wqw2010.blogspot.hk/2017/07/201777.html

Access to Information (信息公开)

China’s content crackdown sends cold chill across the Internet
Reuters, July 4, 2017
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-internet-content-idUSKBN19O21X

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

The Ford Foundation and other 14 overseas NGOs register in Beijing
China Development, July 3, 2017
http://chinadevelopmentbrief.cn/news/the-ford-foundation-and-other-14-overseas-ngos-register-in-beijing/

Government Accountability (政府问责)

China is demoting human rights at the UN
Sentinel Taiwan, June 30, 2017
https://sentinel.tw/china-demoting-human-rights-un/

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State Sovereignty Cannot Be Legitimately Invoked to Attack the Independence of UN Experts and Undermine Established Terms of Reference for Fact-finding Missions
国际人权联盟 中国人权：国家主权不能被合法地用来攻击联合国专家的独立性，及破坏既定的实况调查团的职权
FIDH-HRIC, June 8, 2017
EN: http://www.hrichina.org/en/press-work/statement/state-sovereignty-cannot-be-legitimately-invoked-attack-independence-un-experts
CH: 国际人权联盟 中国人权：国家主权不能被合法地用来攻击联合国专家的独立性，及破坏既定的实况调查团的职权

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

China’s Great Firewall gets tougher to scale as popular VPN shut down
South China Morning Post, July 4, 2017
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2101084/chinas-great-firewall-gets-tougher-scale-popular-vpn-shut-down

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后会无期：中国VPN服务屡被叫停 (Farewell forever: popular VPN banned multiple times in China)
Voice of America, July 4, 2017
https://www.voachinese.com/a/china-vpn-20170703/3926844.html

Hong Kong (香港)

Protests overshadow Hong Kong handover anniversary celebrations
Vice, July 3, 2017
https://news.vice.com/story/protests-overshadow-hong-kong-handover-anniversary-celebrations

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Pro-China and pro-democracy rallies on a Hong Kong anniversary
The New York Times, July 2, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000005196594/pro-democracy-protests-challenge-government-supporters-in-hong-kong.html

“Emotional” democracy activists cuffed for their own safety during Xi Jinping protest, Hong Kong police say
Hong Kong Free Press, July 3, 2017
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/07/03/emotional-democracy-activists-cuffed-safety-xi-jinping-protest-hong-kong-police-say/

习近平访港暴露更深隔阂 (Xi Jinping’s visit to Hong Kong exposes deeper gap)
Financial Times, July 3, 2017
http://www.ftchinese.com/story/001073246

Xi Jinping invokes Opium Wars at the inauguration of Hong Kong’s new leader
Quartz, July 1, 2017
https://qz.com/1019826/hong-kong-handover-xi-jinping-invokes-opium-wars-at-the-inauguration-of-hong-kongs-new-leader/

Hong Kong is relentless in its memes making fun of Chinese president Xi Jinping and his followers
Quartz, June 30, 2017
https://qz.com/1018919/hong-kong-handover-memes-making-fun-of-chinese-president-xi-jinping-and-his-wife-cy-leung-and-others/

Commentary (评论)

HK20: Hong Kong’s language and culture is endangered by a purely political concept of Chinese identity
Hong Kong Free Press, July 4, 2017
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/07/04/hk20-hong-kongs-language-culture-endangered-purely-political-concept-chinese-identity/