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, October 19, 2021

Xinjiang (新疆)

Chinese effort to gather ‘micro clues’ on Uyghurs laid bare in report
The Guardian, October 19, 2021

Related:
The architecture of repression
Australian Strategic Policy Institute, October 19, 2021

Communist Party’s picks to join Xinjiang leadership point to focus on security
South China Morning Post, October 18, 2021

Xinjiang officials overseeing detention camps studied at Harvard
Financial Times, October 19, 2021

Tibet (西藏)

China promotes its most sanctioned official to Tibetan Communist Party chief
South China Morning Post, October 19, 2021

Access to Justice (司法公正)

Chinese police say he killed two people in a land dispute. On the Internet, he was seen as another victim.
The Washington Post, October 19, 2021

Access to Information (公众知情权)

Covid-19: Global attack on freedom of expression is having a dangerous impact on public health crisis
Amnesty International, October 19, 2021

Related:
Silenced and misinformed: Freedom of expression in danger during Covid-19
Amnesty International, October 19, 2021

中国记者每年接受90小时“继续教育” 分析:明确要求记者“对党忠诚” (China requires annual 90-hour “continuing education” for all journalists; experts: This is an explicit demand for “loyalty to the Party”)
Radio Free Asia, October 19, 2021

As Evergrande Teeters, Chinese Media Walks a Fine Line
“消失”在中国新闻里的恒大危机

The New York Times, October 19, 2021

中国媒体指令曝露国家新闻审查的细节 (China's dictates to media reveal details of news censorship)
Voice of America, October 19, 2021

Government Accountability (政府问责)

中共将召开六中全会, “第三个历史决议”成焦点 (CPC's Sixth Plenary Session spotlight: “The third historical resolution”)
BBC News, October 19, 2021

中国人大常委会三审家庭教育促进法草案 孩子犯事将惩戒家长 (China’s NPC Standing Committee on the third review of the draft of Family Education Promotion Law: Parents to be responsible for children's offences)
Voice of America, October 19, 2021

中国加速民族同化步伐 藏蒙疆人恐强力反弹 (China speeds up ethnic assimilation; experts anticipate strong resistance from Tibetans, Mongolians, Uyghurs)
Voice of America, October 19, 2021

中国向宗教开战 迫害法轮功变本加厉 (China wages war on religion, intensifies persecution of Falun Gong)
Radio Free Asia, October 18, 2021

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

北京實施多項調整 允許外資投入VPN服務 (Beijing implements multiple policy adjustments, allows foreign businesses to use VPN)
Deutsche Welle, October 19, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

5 Hong Kong ex-students sentenced to nearly 5 years’ jail for rioting during 2019 campus clashes
Hong Kong Free Press, October 19, 2021

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【二橋衝突|詳盡報導】中大女生解僱律師親自陳詞:極權下的法律只是規範人民的不流血手段(In plea in mitigation, CUHK student fires lawyer, says, "law in a totalitarian state is merely a means to confining people without shedding blood")
inmedia.hk, October 19, 2021

Chanting ‘Hongkongers, add oil’ or calling government ‘tyrannical’ could be seditious, court hears
South China Morning Post, October 18, 2021

Hong Kong protests: apprentice electrician gets 4 months’ jail for taking part in unlawful assembly in 2019
South China Morning Post, October 18, 2021

Court rulings free Hong Kong police to probe older offences under security law
Reuters, October 19, 2021

中大聯合書院學生會幹事會解散 全部內閣成員請辭(CUHK United College student union disbands and all committee members resign)
Radio Television Hong Kong, October 18, 2021

Hong Kong lawmakers urge gov’t to work out plans for mainland-based voters in Dec election
Hong Kong Free Press, October 19, 2021

Member of Hong Kong’s biggest pro-Beijing party appointed undersecretary for constitutional and mainland affairs
South China Morning Post, October 18, 2021

Hong Kong universities must also hold weekly flag-raising ceremonies, education chief reveals
South China Morning Post, October 18, 2021

Book supporting Western powers' 1900 invasion of China disappears from Hong Kong bookstores
Radio Free Asia, October 18, 2021