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, September 09, 2021

Xinjiang (新疆)

U.S.-CHINA CLIMATE CHANGE TALKS FOUNDER OVER XINJIANG SANCTIONS
China Digital Times, September 9, 2021

Two Scientific Journals Retract Articles Involving Chinese DNA Research
The New York Times, September 9, 2021

Access to Justice (司法公正)

不给起诉原件 中国认定丁家喜涉颠覆国家政权(Rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi is indicted for being suspected of subverting state power, his lawyer is not allowed to give Ding’s family the original indictment)
Radio Free Asia, September 8, 2021

Government Accountability (政府问责)

研究: 亲中大外宣扩展规模 称美国为新冠起源地(Pro-China propaganda campaign expands its outreach, says U.S. is the origin of COVID-19)
Deutsche Welle, September 9, 2021

Related:
Pro-China social media campaign hits new countries, blames U.S. for COVID
Reuters, September 9, 2021

中国网游企业遭约谈 沉迷举报平台将上线(Heads of Chinese online game companies summoned by authorities, platform for reporting game addiction to be launched)
Deutsche Welle, September 9, 2021

文化整肃愈演愈烈 中国冻结新网络游戏审批(Cleanup of the cultural sector in China is intensifying, approval of new online games suspended)
Voice of America, September 9, 2021

Access to Information (公众知情权)

Xi Jinping's crackdown on everything is remaking Chinese society
The Washington Post, September 9, 2021

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

China and Big Tech: Xi’s blueprint for a digital dictatorship
Financial Times, September 9, 2021

Chinese tech tycoons’ retreat spurs speculation about true motives amid controversies and Big Tech crackdown
South China Morning Post, September 9, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

Hong Kong activists convicted of unauthorised assembly over annual Tiananmen Square vigil after guilty pleas
South China Morning Post, September 9, 2021

Related:
In full: ‘Speaking truth to power’: Tiananmen Massacre Alliance vice-chair Albert Ho’s mitigation plea
Hong Kong Free Press, September 9, 2021

Hong Kong national security police raid Tiananmen Massacre museum, a day after vigil group leaders arrested
Hong Kong Free Press, September 9, 2021

Related:
鄒幸彤親友引述律師:鄒幸彤遭警指控「煽動顛覆國家政權」(Chow Hang Tung is charged with inciting subversion, according to Chow's lawyer)
Ming Pao, September 9, 2021

【拒交資料】消息指支聯會常委徐漢光被捕 同被指違國安法實施細則(Sources say Hong Kong Alliance committee member Tsui Hon Kwong has been arrested for violating implementation rules of national security law)
Stand News, September 9, 2021

支聯會4人被捕 英外相指心寒 駐港公署批粗暴干涉香港事務(China's Foreign Ministry in HK criticizes UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab for interfering in HK affairs over a Twitter post saying arrests of Hong Kong Alliance members are chilling)
Ming Pao, September 9, 2021

Hong Kong lawmakers urge gov’t to regulate crowdfunding after national security probe into protest legal fund
Hong Kong Free Press, September 9, 2021

Related:
612基金將退回本月3日至本周二期間31萬多元捐款(612 Humanitarian Relief Fund to return more than HK$310,000 received in donations)
Radio Television Hong Kong, September 9, 2021

Hong Kong activist Gwyneth Ho says only open bail hearing can safeguard her ‘best interest’
Hong Kong Free Press, September 9, 2021

岑敖暉被加被控藐視法庭 與周梓樂逝世半年貼文有關(Former district councillor Lester Shum, one of the 47 pro-democracy figures arrested for subversion, is charged with contempt of court over a social media post about the death of HKUST student during 2019 protest)
Stand News, September 9, 2021

Hong Kong leaders apply national security law retroactively, US congressional panel hears
South China Morning Post, September 9, 2021

INSIDE THE PRO-BEIJING MEDIA ECOSYSTEM
The Atlantic, September 9, 2021

Commentary (评论)

“恶法非法”还是“恶法亦法”?一个伪问题(Is ‘evil law illegal’ or is ‘evil law also law’? That is a pseudo-problem)
Financial Times, September 8, 2021

‘Reversing Gears’: China Increasingly Rejects English, and the World
“开倒车”?中国弱化英语教育意味着什么

The New York Times, September 9, 2021