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.

Friday, October 08, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

17 opposition Hong Kong district councillors have oaths of allegiance challenged; 20 more disqualified
South China Morning Post, October 8, 2021

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區議員宣誓|新界西及離島區議員宣誓17人須補交資料 4人缺席宣誓即時離任(Oaths of 17 district councilors from New Territories West and Outlying Islands questioned by authorities; 4 absent from oath-taking ceremony ousted immediately)
Ming Pao, October 8, 2021

Chinese emblem appears on Hong Kong gov’t websites under updated flag law, local emblem shrinks
Hong Kong Free Press, October 8, 2021

Beijing officials in Hong Kong urge public to embrace national pride, support integration with mainland China
South China Morning Post, October 8, 2021

Hong Kong's oldest university orders Tiananmen statue removal
Agence France-Presse, October 8, 2021

Chinese University Student Union ‘forced to dissolve in such an ugly way,’ ex-leader says
Hong Kong Free Press, October 8, 2021

Related:
中大學生會解散 民主牆遭圍封有學生批扼殺言論自由(CUHK’s “Democracy Wall” shut down following disbandment of students’ union; students call it strangling of freedom of speech)
Radio Television Hong Kong, October 7, 2021

National security law: police arrest couple, seize pistol and 92 bullets during raid on northern Hong Kong flat
South China Morning Post, October 8, 2021

Hong Kong public broadcaster RTHK refuses to say why it deleted story about proposed law criminalising insults
Hong Kong Free Press, October 8, 2021

曾被《文匯》轟「放生暴徒」 據報法官沈小民提早退休移英 司法機構拒評(Judge Sham Siu-man, attacked by pro-Beijing newspaper for light sentences to 2019 protestors, to emigrate to UK in early retirement)
Stand News, October 8, 2021