Access to Justice (司法公正)

最高法：法官辞职后限制期内不得受聘于律师事务所 (Supreme People’s Court: Judges can be employed by law firms after service)
The Paper, October 11, 2017
http://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1820612

报道武汉大学生失踪案一文记者王涛遭行政拘留10天后又转看守所 恐被刑事拘留 (Journalist Wang Tao transferred to detention center after being detained for 10 days for reporting missing university students in Wuhan)
Weiquanwang, October 11, 2017
http://wqw2010.blogspot.hk/2017/10/10.html

被捕律师王权璋妻子李文足再遭警方骚扰 (Li Wenzu, wife of arrested 709 lawyer Wang Quanzhang, harassed by police again)
Radio Free Asia, October 10, 2017
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/yf2-10102017105230.html

落实普法责任制部际联席会议第一次全体会议召开 (First cross-ministry meeting convened to implement accountability system for legal publicity)
Legal Daily, October 10, 2017
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/index_article/content/2017-10/10/content_7338911.htm

曹建明：发展完善中国特色社会主义公益司法保护制度 (Cao Jianming, Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate: Develop and improve a socialist public interest judicial protection system with Chinese characteristics)
Legal Daily, October 10, 2017
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/xwzx/content/2017-10/10/content_7338912.htm

Notes from prison (part one of two)
China Change, October 10, 2017
https://chinachange.org/2017/10/10/notes-from-prison-part-one-of-two/

Access to Information (信息公开)

Your news about China depends on intrepid journalists whose names you’ll probably never know
Quartz, October 11, 2017
https://qz.com/1094098/why-you-dont-know-the-names-of-the-people-who-take-the-biggest-risks-to-bring-you-your-china-news/

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

Under the eye of state security police, Chinese activists mark 1911 revolution
Radio Free Asia, October 10, 2017
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/activists-10102017111503.html

Government Accountability (政府问责)

拖欠农民工工资将被列入“黑名单”，人社部发文明确了！(Social security authority issues regulation that blacklists companies which fail to pay migrant workers)
Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, October 11, 2017
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/NqjUN2XN-1yg-_XSeQxWnw

五年来年均减贫超1300万人 (China lifts 13 million out of poverty annually during past 5 years)
Beijing News, October 11, 2017
http://epaper.bjnews.com.cn/html/2017-10/11/content_697915.htm?div=-1

全国农村留守儿童信息管理系统正式启用 (Information management system goes online for children left behind in rural China)
Beijing News, October 10, 2017
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2017/10/10/460442.html

山西：ＰＭ２.５降幅不达标将问责市委书记市长 (Shanxi province to hold Party secretary and mayor accountable for air pollution)
China Central Television, October 10, 2017
http://m.news.cctv.com/2017/10/10/ARTIQFcmPfNkgdWfLCXSfNdy171010.shtml

中央纪委向十九大工作报告审议程序发生重大变化 (Important change of the review procedure of Central Commission for Discipline Inspection’s work report to the 19th Party Congress)
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, October 10, 2017
http://www.ccdi.gov.cn/xwtt/201710/t20171010_108576.html

China's Communist Party makes final preparations for key congress
Reuters, October 11, 2017
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-congress/chinas-communist-party-makes-final-preparations-for-key-congress-idUSKBN1CG0AG

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

Chinese tech groups display closer ties with Communist party
Financial Times, October 10, 2017
https://www.ft.com/content/6bc839c0-ace6-11e7-aab9-abaa44b1e130?mhq5j=e5

National Security & Counterterrorism (国家安全和反恐)

Xinjiang cancels National Day holiday ahead of Party Congress
Radio Free Asia, October 10, 2017
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/holiday-10102017144540.html

Hong Kong (香港)

Say no to threats to China’s sovereignty, says Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam in first policy address
Hong Kong Free Press, October 11, 2017
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/10/11/say-no-threats-chinas-sovereignty-says-hong-kong-leader-carrie-lam-first-policy-address/

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林鄭月娥發表施政報告 稱要向影響一國兩制行為說不 (Carrie Lam’s policy address: HKers have obligation to say ":no" to actions that affect “one country, two systems”)
Radio Television Hong Kong, October 11, 2017
http://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1358322-20171011.htm?spTabChangeable=0

林鄭月娥今早演辭未提及的4大議題 (Four of the major issues that Carrie Lam didn’t mention in this morning’s speech)
Mingpao, October 11, 2017
https://news.mingpao.com/ins/instantnews/web_tc/article/20171011/s00001/1507698307071

Carrie Lam promised to “connect,” yet engagement with NGOs is deteriorating on her watch
Hong Kong Free Press, October 11, 2017
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/10/11/carrie-lam-promised-connect-yet-engagement-ngos-deteriorating-watch/

僅3.1%港青自認中國人 歷來新低 (Only 3.1% Hong Kong young people think they are Chinese, a historical low)
Apple Daily, October 10, 2017
http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/news/art/20171010/20177873

Hong Kong fans ignore warnings and again boo the national anthem—this time before an Asian Cup qualifier
South China Morning Post, October 10, 2017
http://www.scmp.com/sport/soccer/article/2114782/hong-kong-fans-ignore-warnings-and-again-boo-national-anthem-time-asian

British Conservative party activist barred from entering Hong Kong
The Guardian, October 11, 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/11/british-conservative-party-activist-benedict-rogers-hong-kong

Commentary (评论)

Under Xi Jinping, China is turning back to dictatorship
Financial Times, October 11, 2017
https://www.ft.com/content/cb2c8578-adb4-11e7-aab9-abaa44b1e130