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, September 06, 2018

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

Inspired by #MeToo, student activists target inequality in China
Reuters, September 5, 2018
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-students-labour-insight/inspired-by-metoo-student-activists-target-inequality-in-china-idUSKCN1LL0FB

Professor fired after tweeting that Chinese “lie, commit fraud and poison each other”
Radio Free Asia, September 4, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/xiamen-professor-09042018130814.html