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, July 29, 2019

Xinjiang (新疆)

Fifty ambassadors throw weight behind China on Xinjiang
Global Times, July 29, 2019

No Uighur refugees deported to China, officials reject false reports
Daily Sabah, July 29, 2019

The world knows what is happening to the Uighurs. Why has it been so slow to act?
The Guardian, July 26, 2019

哈国人权领袖赛尔克坚面临最高7年监禁
Trial date set for Kazakh activist who blew whistle on China’s mass detention camps
Radio Free Asia, July 26, 2019

Uyghur detainees secretly transferred to prisons in Henan Province: Officials
Radio Free Asia, July 26, 2019

Access to Justice (司法公正)

12-year sentence for China dissident on state secrets charge
Associated Press, July 29, 2019

长沙市国家安全局证实民间组织三成员被刑拘 (Changsha national security authorities confirm 3 members of NGO arrested on subversion charges)
Radio Free Asia, July 26, 2019

China’s courts “biased” towards state giants due to political pressure, study shows
South China Morning Post, July 26, 2019

Access to Information (信息公开)

Confucius Institutes in Australia face probe
China Digital Times, July 26, 2019

Minitrue: Delete article on suicide of bank president
China Digital Times, July 26, 2019

Minitrue: Delete Beijing Youth Daily front page on Li Peng
China Digital Times, July 26, 2019

Taiwan gets tough over fake news blamed on Beijing “disrupting its democracy”
South China Morning Post, July 27, 2019

斯坦福大学胡佛研究所向公众开放《李锐日记》 (Stanford University to open Li Rui’s diaries for public viewing)
Radio Free Asia, July 26, 2019

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

Gay Chinese find a place to be themselves on “rainbow cruise” to Vietnam
South China Morning Post, July 28, 2019

Government Accountability (政府问责)

Beijing’s top office on Hong Kong affairs backs city’s gov’t and police, condemning recent protests at rare press con
Hong Kong Free Press, July 29, 2019

China rejects US lawmaker’s comments on Hong Kong protests, human rights
Reuters, July 28, 2019

Chinese official urged Hong Kong villagers to drive off protesters before violence at train station
Reuters, July 26, 2019

Hong Kong (香港)

盧偉聰發公告讚警隊「高度專業及勇敢」「無私付出」 勉勵要「奮戰到底」 (Commissioner of Police praises police force for “courageous professionalism” and “selfless sacrifice,” urging them to “fight to the very end”)
Stand News, July 29, 2019

美專家:催淚彈動能大可致盲傷腦 研究證毒性令軍人肺部受損 (Anesthesiology expert warns against deploying tear gas in high-density areas, using pyrotechnic charge to fire canisters)
Apple Daily, July 29, 2019

Anti-riot vehicles equipped with water cannons to begin road tests in Hong Kong and could be ready to disperse protesters in August
South China Morning Post, July 29, 2019

Hong Kong: Police fire teargas as thousands march in Yuen Long
The Guardian, July 27, 2019

Related:
727衝突全紀錄:示威者元朗抗議涉黑白色暴力 香港警察對示威者頻密發射催淚彈 (Full record of July 27: Protesters rally in Yuen Long to fight “white shirt violence,” police clear scene with tear gas, batons, sponge bullets)
The Initium, July 27, 2019

“No difference”: Hong Kong police likened to thugs after Yuen Long violence
The Guardian, July 28, 2019

28萬人上街後,香港「光復元朗」申請人因「煽惑非法集結」被拘捕 (After 280,000 march in Yuen Long, man who made application for police permission arrested for inciting unlawful assembly)
The News Lens, July 28, 2019

【7.27 元朗】17 受傷 2 人嚴重 最年輕傷者 15 歲 (July 27 Yuen Long protests: 17 injured; 2 severe, youngest 15 years old)
Stand News, July 28, 2019

Police and protesters clash throughout Hong Kong on third day of unrest
The Guardian, July 28, 2019

Related:
中上環遊行拘49人 警批示威者行為越演越烈:我哋已經好克制忍讓 (“We are already very tolerant,” say Hong Kong police as they criticize escalation and “lethal weapons” by protesters)
Inmediahk.net, July 29, 2019

警察中上環民居再狂射催淚彈 內外街夾攻驅趕示威者 (Police fire tear gas every 20 seconds in Sheung Wan and central residential areas to clear the streets of protesters)
Inmediahk.net, July 29, 2019

Hong Kong protest: Clashes with police turn downtown into tear gas-filled battlefield
The New York Times, July 28, 2019

728示威:有救護員收到命令,指救護車須得警察批准才可以進入示威人群中救人 (Timeline of July 28: Paramedics and firefighters ordered not to enter protest scene without police permission)
The Initium, July 28, 2019

【逃犯條例】有公務員申周五集會 發起人:脫下制服都是香港人 (“We walk with the people”: Civil servants plan rally on Friday to support protesters)
HK01, July 28, 2019

Related:
One in seven of Hong Kong’s elite civil servants call on Carrie Lam to hold independent inquiry into extradition bill unrest but police unions remain firmly opposed
South China Morning Post, July 26, 2019

Hong Kong unrest: “We cannot give up”
The New York Times, July 28, 2019

香港警队恃宠生娇公开顶撞政务司“道歉论”要与其“势不两立” (Hong Kong police force condemns Chief Secretary of Administration for apologizing over poor handling of July 21 Yuen Long attacks)
Radio France Internationale, July 27, 2019

Related:
Hong Kong’s chief sec. apologises over handling of Yuen Long attacks, stirring dissent from police
Hong Kong Free Press, July 26, 2019

612警方開槍疑報細數 橡膠子彈最少10發 事前無舉橙旗警示 (Police suspected of under-reporting rubber bullet use during June 12 protests: At least 10 rounds fired, with no warning issued)
Factwire, July 26, 2019

Hong Kong airport staff stage protest against Yuen Long attack
The Guardian, July 26, 2019

Commentary (评论)

在反修例運動的第50天,回望它是怎麼開始的 (50 days into anti-extradition movement, let’s look back on how it began)
The Initium, July 28, 2019

A letter to Hong Kong’s Carrie Lam: If not to your own conscience, you will be held accountable by history
Hong Kong Free Press, July 27, 2019

Hong Kong protesters are winning without even knowing it. But what next for the movement?
Hong Kong Free Press, July 28, 2019

Hong Kong’s third generation of democracy fighters are not just rioters, they are last line of resistance
Hong Kong Free Press, July 28, 2019

South Africa should take the lead in criticising the cultural genocide in Xinjiang
Daily Maverick, July 28, 2019

It’s as if Hong Kong is now unmoored, so fast have the old ways unravelled
The Guardian, July 28, 2019

Why vandalising the Chinese emblem differs from vandalising the Goddess of Democracy
Hong Kong Free Press, July 27, 2019

The government is gaslighting Hongkongers – here’s why protesters are no longer buying it
Hong Kong Free Press, July 27, 2019

元朗恐怖襲擊夜-一位在西鐵站救治傷者的醫生見證 (Testimony of a medic in Yuen Long station on July 21)
Citizen News, July 26, 2019