Access to Justice (司法公正)

Police detain Chinese activists marking 50th anniversary of Lin Zhao's death
民主先驱林昭遇难50周年 多位祭奠人士遭控制
Radio Free Asia, April 30, 2018
EN: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/activists-04302018114334.html
CH: https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/gf1-04302018101602.html

Tianjin police “investigate” colleagues of detained human rights lawyer
公安“侦查”王全璋案 多名维权律师拒绝配合
Radio Free Asia, April 30, 2018
EN: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/colleagues-04302018113935.html
CH: https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/gf1-04272018102431.html

蔡志国感慨“信访见人不见底”，五一节前“三骗子胡同”突然不见了信访人 (Hebei rights defender observes: usual crowds of petitioners in front of State Bureau of Letters and Calls in Beijing have been cleared away before May 1 holiday)
Weiquanwang, May 1, 2018
http://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2018/04/blog-post_83.html

Access to Information (信息公开)

Peppa Pig blocked from China's Douyin video platform
British Broadcasting Corporation, April 30, 2018
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-43953432

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

The AI arms race: China and US compete to dominate big data
Financial Times, May 1, 2018
https://www.ft.com/content/e33a6994-447e-11e8-93cf-67ac3a6482fd

”Forget the Facebook leak”: China is mining data directly from workers’ brains on an industrial scale
South China Morning Post, April 29, 2018
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2143899/forget-facebook-leak-china-mining-data-directly-workers-brains

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

中国多地塔吊司机拉横幅上街 要求涨工资 (Crane operators nationwide strike and protest to demand wages increase and overtime pay for high-risk work)
Voice of America, April 30, 2018
https://www.voachinese.com/a/news-collective-action-and-strike-broke-out-by-construction-crane-operators-in-numerous-regions-of-china-20180430/4370725.html

袁凌：從調查記者轉型作家，記錄鄉村、底層和體制邊緣人 (Yuan Ling, an investigative journalist and author, on recording the lives of rural, marginalized people)
The Initium, April 30, 2018
https://theinitium.com/article/20180430-mainland-yuanling/

National Security & Counterterrorism (国家安全与反恐)

White house considers restricting Chinese researchers over espionage fears
The New York Times, April 30, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/us/politics/trump-china-researchers-espionage.html

Hong Kong (香港)

Article 23 national security law in Hong Kong could help win more democracy, government adviser Ronny Tong says
South China Morning Post, May 1, 2018
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2144199/article-23-national-security-law-hong-kong-could-help-win

Government is rewriting the history of Hong Kong, one inconvenient phrase at a time
South China Morning Post, May 1, 2018
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2144200/government-rewriting-history-hong-kong-one-inconvenient

Cutting off former Hong Kong legislator’s famous long hair was not discriminatory, court rules
South China Morning Post, April 30, 2018
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2143998/cutting-former-hong-kong-legislators-famous

Activists complain to Ombudsman over gov’t officers monitoring lawmakers’ whereabouts inside legislature
Hong Kong Free Press, April 30, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/04/30/activists-complain-ombudsman-govt-officers-monitoring-lawmakers-whereabouts-inside-legislature/

Other (其他)

目击者：中方施压约旦 台湾参展旗帜遭扯 (Taiwan flag ripped off exhibition in Jordan, allegedly at China’s request)
Radio Free Asia, April 30, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/gangtai/hcm1-04302018102735.html

Taiwan’s diplomatic isolation increases as Dominican Republic recognizes China
The New York Times, May 1, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/world/asia/taiwan-dominican-republic-recognize.html

Commentary (评论)

Censorship “maybe”? Hong Kong’s Carrie Lam fails to reassure on press freedom
Hong Kong Free Press, May 1, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/05/01/censorship-maybe-hong-kongs-carrie-lam-fails-reassure-press-freedom/

The rise of populism and implications for China
China File, April 30, 2018
http://www.chinafile.com/library/china-world-podcast/rise-of-populism-and-implications-china

誰砸爛大學基層教師的飯碗？(Who smashed the rice bowls of Hong Kong adjunct faculties?)
Inmedia, April 30, 2018
https://www.inmediahk.net/node/1056712a

Access to Justice (司法公正)

人民陪审员法表决通过 明确人民陪审员与法官有同等权利 (NPC Standing Committee passes law of People’s Assessors who “have the same rights as judges”)
Xinhua News Agency, April 27, 2018
http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2018-04/27/c_1122755575.htm

Related:
中华人民共和国人民陪审员法 (People’s Assessors Law of the People’s Republic of China)
National People’s Congress, April 27, 2018
http://www.npc.gov.cn/npc/xinwen/2018-04/27/content_2053975.htm

Access to Information (信息公开)

佩佩豬突遭抖音封殺 網哀：我們懷念她 (Peppa Pig censored by Douyin, Chinese video platform)
TVBS, April 30, 2018
https://news.tvbs.com.tw/fun/911102

李克强让人民运用互联网大数据监督政府讲话遭删 (Li Keqiang’s comment on people monitoring government using Internet, big data censored in China)
Radio France Internationale, April 30, 2018
https://bit.ly/2HFFpzF

China’s state broadcaster backs Russian version of the Syrian crisis, saying chemical attacks were staged
Global Voices, April 28, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/04/28/chinas-state-broadcaster-backs-russian-version-syrian-crisis-saying-chemical-attacks-staged/

广东省网信办等部门加强网络空间治理 积极查办违法违规案件 (Guangdong Internet and Informatization Office censors 6 million pieces of “harmful information,” shuts down 580,000 Internet accounts, takes down 700 apps in 2018)
China Cyberspace Administration, April 27, 2018
http://www.cac.gov.cn/2018-04/27/c_1122750744.htm

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

珠海偉創力罷工遭官方工會破壞 (Zhuhai workers’ strike sabotaged by party-controlled trade union)
Inmediahk, April 30, 2018
https://www.inmediahk.net/node/1056686

Government Accountability (政府问责)

Chinese girl abducted, hidden and beaten finally finds birth parents 21 years on
South China Morning Post, April 30, 2018
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2144027/chinese-girl-abducted-hidden-and-beaten-finally-finds-birth

A new class struggle: Chinese party members get back to Communist Manifesto basics
South China Morning Post, April 29, 2018
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2143841/new-class-struggle-chinese-party-members-get-back

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

Taiwan president says willing to meet China's Xi “for peace”
Agence France-Presse, April 27, 2018
https://www.yahoo.com/news/taiwan-president-says-willing-meet-chinas-xi-peace-003615062.html

公安部：铸牢对党忠诚政治灵魂，发扬国保队伍优良传统 (Ministry of Public Security honors Domestic Security officers for “loyalty to the Party”)
Ministry of Public Security, April 27, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2101036

Hong Kong (香港)

Hong Kong poet and supporter of late dissident Liu Xiaobo battles terminal cancer
South China Morning Post, April 30, 2018
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2143965/hong-kong-poet-and-supporter-late-dissident-liu-xiaobo

Correctional Services Dept. wins appeal to overturn sexual discrimination challenge against male prisoner haircuts
Hong Kong Free Press, April 30, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/04/30/correctional-services-dept-wins-appeal-overturn-sexual-discrimination-challenge-male-prisoner-haircuts/

Hong Kong housing protests grow as Labor Party demands seizure of city’s most exclusive golf club
South China Morning Post, April 29, 2018
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2143904/hong-kong-housing-protests-grow-labour-party-demands-seizure

Commentary (评论)

為何仍堅持建設民主中國？ (Why do we persist in building a democratic China?)
Inmediahk, April 30, 2018
https://www.inmediahk.net/node/1056705

How China’s filmmakers became nostalgic for a socialist past
China Film Insider, April 29, 2018
http://chinafilminsider.com/how-chinas-filmmakers-became-nostalgic-for-a-socialist-past/

Free speech: Hong Kong’s new limits, new punishments, and the fate of academic Benny Tai
Hong Kong Free Press, April 29, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/04/29/free-speech-hong-kongs-new-limits-new-punishments-fate-academic-benny-tai/

The Ted Hui debacle: Tragedy, farce, and the hypocrisy of Hong Kong’s pro-establishment camp
Hong Kong Free Press, April 29, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/04/29/ted-hui-debacle-tragedy-farce-hypocrisy-hong-kongs-pro-establishment-camp/

The demise of watchdog journalism in China
中国调查性报道的衰亡
The New York Times, April 27, 2018
EN: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/opinion/watchdog-journalism-china-oppression.html
CH: https://cn.nytimes.com/opinion/20180428/watchdog-journalism-china-oppression/