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, November 19, 2020

Hong Kong (香港)

Court rules Hong Kong’s police watchdogs ‘inadequate’; failures in displaying officer IDs breached Bill of Rights
Hong Kong Free Press, November 19, 2020

Hong Kong protests: police national security unit to investigate student rally at Chinese University
South China Morning Post, November 18, 2020

Five Eyes allies call on China to reverse ban on Hong Kong pro-democracy legislators
The Guardian, November 18, 2020

英美澳加新“五眼联盟”发表香港问题联合声明:北京有预谋禁绝反对声音(Joint statement on Hong Kong by "Five Eyes Alliance" of UK, U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand: Beijing has planned to extinguish dissent)
British Broadcasting Corporation, November 19, 2020

Related: (Note: November 18, 2020)

Joint Statement on Hong Kong
U.S. Department of State, November 18, 2020

12港人被扣近3個月 家屬稱收到親筆信但認為有可疑 (Families doubt authenticity of signed letters from detained Hong Kong 12)
Radio Television Hong Kong, November 19, 2020

鍾翰林被指搶國旗受審 控方屢改控罪及案情 官:唔係好滿意 (In trial of Tony Chung, accused of grabbing national flag, judge finds prosecution’s repeated change of charges problematic)
inmediahk.net, November 19, 2020

記協聲明:覆核警員不展示編號及投訴警方機制不符《人權法》獲判勝訴 (Statement by Hong Kong Journalists Association on court ruling that HKPF’s failure in displaying officers’ IDs violates Bill of Rights)
inmediahk.net, November 19, 2020