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, June 25, 2018

Hong Kong (香港)

Don’t turn prosecution into persecution, head of Hong Kong barrister body warns
South China Morning Post, June 23, 2018
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2152104/dont-turn-prosecution-persecution-head-hong

開架有益 歧視下架 多元閱讀聯合陣線行動 (United Front for Open Libraries protests removal of children’s books on nontraditional families from open stacks)
In Media HK, June 25, 2018
https://www.inmediahk.net/node/1057898

議員多次被逐研「全年停賽」? 謝偉俊澄清:不是我個人意見 指有聲音要求改議規免失禮 (Chair of Legco Rules of Procedure Committee says call for year-long suspension of “unruly” legislators came from others, not him)
Ming Pao, June 25, 2018
https://news.mingpao.com/ins/instantnews/web_tc/article/20180625/s00001/1529900337717

民陣上訴被駁回 否認會「公民抗命」 籲市民沿途加入七一遊行 (Civil Human Rights Front urges citizens to join July 1 March along its way, denies act as “citizen disobedience”)
The Stand, June 25, 2018
https://thestandnews.com/politics/民陣上訴被駁回-否認會-公民抗命-籲市民沿途加入七一遊行/

黃柳權指香港實施中央統一領導制度 並非美國聯邦制 (Liuquan Huang: Hong Kong is subject to central government control, neither separation of powers nor federalism applies)
Radio Television Hong Kong, June 25, 2018
http://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1403544-20180625.htm

暴動罪成囚6年 梁天琦就定罪及刑期提出上訴 (Edward Leung appeals his rioting conviction)
The Stand News, June 25, 2018
https://thestandnews.com/politics/暴動罪成囚6年-梁天琦就定罪及刑期提出上訴/

Related:
梁天琦暴動罪判決書 (Edward Leung’s Verdict)
The Stand News, June 24, 2018
https://thestandnews.com/politics/梁天琦暴動罪判決書/

香港一地两检条例刊宪 多人入禀司法覆核 (Motions filed for judicial review on co-location bill)
Voice of America, June 22, 2018
https://www.voachinese.com/a/voanews-20180622-hong-kong-judicial-co-location-arrangement-bill/4450300.html