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.

Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Government Accountability (政府问责)

Operation Fox Hunt: How China Exports Repression Using a Network of Spies Hidden in Plain Sight
猎狐行动:中国海外追逃内幕
ProPublica, August 18, 2021

Signs bubble up that a Chinese city is growing weary of lockdown.
中国“零容忍”防疫模式暴露局限性

The New York Times, August 24, 2021

“Common prosperity”: A lexicon of China’s tech crackdown jargon
Quartz, August 24, 2021

Harris rebukes China in speech on Indo-Pacific vision
Associated Press, August 24, 2021

中国踏进“帝国坟场” (Afghanistan: China is stepping into “the grave of empires”)
Radio France Internationale, August 23, 2021

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

Unpacking China’s game-changing data law
Protocol, August 24, 2021

Alibaba Cloud data leak ‘violated Cybersecurity Law’ in 2019 and must rectify, local Chinese telecoms regulator says
South China Morning Post, August 24, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

Group that organised annual June 4 Tiananmen vigil in Hong Kong decides to disband
South China Morning Post, August 24, 2021

Related:
據報支聯會常委通過解散 待特別會員大會通過 鄒幸彤:不評論(Sources say Hong Kong Alliance passes disbandment resolution)
Stand News, August 24, 2021

社總有「被解散」危機?張國柱:唔能夠排除(Could Hong Kong Social Workers' General Union be the next to disband? Former chair Peter Cheung: Can’t rule it out)
inmedia.hk, August 24, 2021

Hong Kong pro-democracy lobbying group in Washington DC sees leadership depart
Hong Kong Free Press, August 24, 2021

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam questions value of political opposition that doesn’t contest elections, insists city’s system still open to differences of opinion
South China Morning Post, August 24, 2021

Hong Kong to amend law to step up film censorship
Associated Press, August 24, 2021

National security law: Hong Kong’s PolyU tells student union to take magazine off shelves over ‘inappropriate’ content
South China Morning Post, August 24 ,2021

Hundreds of ballots ‘stuck in administrative limbo’ add new layer of uncertainty to leadership poll for Hong Kong’s Law Society
South China Morning Post, August 24, 2021

Commentary (评论)

The evil of banal censorship
GlobalVoices, August 24, 2021

China’s ‘common prosperity’ should be about helping those who need it most
South China Morning Post, August 24, 2021