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.

Monday, April 25, 2022

Human Rights Defenders & Civil Society (人权捍卫者与公民社会)

Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondents' Club suspends top Asian human rights awards
Reuters, April 25, 2022

Former Hong Kong academic and Occupy founder Benny Tai pleads guilty to illegally incurring election expenses over ads for tactical voting scheme
South China Morning Post, April 25, 2022

Ex-leaders of Hong Kong’s defunct Tiananmen vigil group in court for first time since Covid-19 prison lockdown
Hong Kong Free Press, April 25, 2022

Hong Kong social scientist from pollster group Pori flees city, citing threats from ‘powerful bodies’, fear of ‘moving red lines’
South China Morning Post, April 25, 2022

Hong Kong’s largest journalist group holds meeting to discuss possibility of disbandment, says it will still operate for ‘foreseeable future’
South China Morning Post, April 23, 2022

Hong Kong's Chinese University evicts student media as PolyU cuts ties with union
Radio Free Asia, April 22, 2022

10.1黃大仙暴動案 8男女判監36至39月 官指急救員與全副武裝者罪責相同(8 sentenced to 36 to 39 months in prison for rioting on National Day in the 2019 protests)
inmediahk.net, April 22, 2022

曾被警帶走助查黃店皇茶結業 引《WARRIOR》歌詞:「大不了死亦不會避」(Pro-democracy Taiwan tea shop Royaltea whose owners were taken by police for investigation shuts down)
inmediahk.net, April 25, 2022

美籍律师Bickett已向香港终院提交上诉 (American lawyer Bickett appeals his case in Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal)
Radio Free Asia, April 25, 2022

【羊村繪本案】郭偉健批准由國安法官主審 稱控罪若實行勢令中央成「受害者」(Judge Kwok Wai-kin approves prosecution’s request to have national security judge handle case of speech therapists union charged with publishing seditious children’s books)
inmediahk.net, April 22, 2022

Student poetry contest in China becomes unexpected outlet for dissent
The Washington Post, April 24, 2022