“Surviving China”: Uyghur voices from Xinjiang and Guantanamo
Bitter Winter, April 15, 2019
Holocaust survivor: “The past is repeating itself”
Radio Free Asia, April 17, 2019
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Xinjiang (新疆)
Access to Justice (司法公正)
Chinese rights lawyer's wife uses birthday to mark “disappearance”
Radio Free Asia, April 17, 2019
Access to Information (信息公开)
新浪多个应用被下令停止更新下架一个月 (Sina apps suspended for failing to censor “viral, vulgar, and fake” content)
Voice of America, April 17, 2019
Weibo reverses ban on lesbian content amid uproar
China Digital Times, April 17, 2019
Chinese actor Zhao Lixin banned from Weibo over comments on second Sino-Japanese war
What’s On Weibo, April 17, 2019
Citizen Participation (公民参与)
法国出版连环画纪念六四30年 亲历者张伦教授现身说法 (1989 Democracy Movement participant Zhang Lun publishes graphic novel in France to commemorate 30th anniversary)
Radio France Internationale, April 18, 2019
六四临近，揭萨斯疫情军医蒋彦永被失联 (Military medic vocal about June Fourth held incommunicado in hospital as anniversary draws near)
Radio Free Asia, April 17, 2019
广州土地交易疑贪 酿警民冲突
Police in China's Guangzhou detain eight after demolition standoff
Radio Free Asia, April 17, 2019
Government Accountability (政府问责)
More businesses fall victim to “Anti-Halal” campaign
Bitter Winter, April 15, 2019
全面提高宗教工作水平 切实维护宗教领域和谐稳定 (Wang Yang, NPPCC chairman: Party to step up leadership in “work on religion,” to maintain harmonious stability in religious sector)
People’s Daily, April 18, 2019
HRIC Note: Wang stresses “active exploration into effective ways to sinify reglion.”
ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)
Amazon to exit China this week
Pandaily, April 17, 2019
美国FCC主席反对中国移动在美提供电信服务
FCC chairman opposes China Mobile’s effort to enter US
Financial Times, April 18, 2019
Related:
F.C.C. Chair plans to block China Mobile from U.S. market
The New York Times, April 17, 2019
商汤科技退出新疆安全业务
China’s SenseTime sells out of Xinjiang security joint venture
Financial Times, April 17, 2019
Hong Kong (香港)
商人、社工、民運人士，《逃犯條例》修訂後，誰將成為「逃犯」？ (Businessmen, social workers, democracy activists: who will become “fugitives” after amendment to Hong Kong’s extradition laws?)
The Initium, April 18, 2019
JUST IN: Hong Kong stumbles in Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index, down 25 places in 10 years
Hong Kong Free Press, April 18m, 2019
Commentary (评论)
在“没有为什么”的中国，边被跟踪边报道新闻
Being tracked while reporting in China, where “there are no whys”
The New York Times, April 17, 2019
中國廣電禁令事件簿：不合時宜即封殺，歌手李志只是冰山一角 (Logbook of censorship: Singer Li Zhi is just the tip of the iceberg)
The News Lens, April 18, 2019
Xi Jinping’s intolerance of dissent within government heightens the risk of Chinese policy mistakes
South China Morning Post, April 18m, 2019
Hope remains for Western solidarity. Look at embassies in Beijing
The Economist, April 17, 2019
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