Human Rights Defenders

Chinese Lawyer Barred from Meeting with Merkel
The Associated Press, February 03, 2012
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120203/ap_on_re_as/as_china_germany_human_rights

组织访民春晚赵振甲被刑拘 蚌埠异见人士钱进被警方传讯 (Liaoning Petitioner Criminally Arrested after Organizing Spring Festival Dinner for Petitioners)
Radio Free Asia, February 02, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/fy-02022012092110.html

May 19, 2010

News

Corruption
China Warns Officials over Property Corruption
Agence France-Presse (via Yahoo! News), May 18, 2010
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100518/wl_asia_afp/chinapropertycorruption

Officials Named, Shamed for Illegal Constructions
China Daily, May 18, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-05/18/content_9865075.htm

Environment
Polluting Firms Pose Big Threat to Wetlands
China Daily, May 19, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-05/19/content_9865988.htm

Government
Party Offers Glimpse of its Internal Apparatus
South China Morning Post, May 19, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=a2164112a0ca8210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Human Rights Defender - Mo Shaoping (莫少平)
Rights Lawyer Squeezed Off Tsinghua Panel
South China Morning Post, May 19, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=5642f36bc5ca8210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

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清华大学法学研讨会冷待维权律师 (Tsinghua University Revokes Invite of Beijing Rights Defense Lawyer to Attend a Law Seminar)
British Broadcasting Corporation, May 19, 2010
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2010/05/100519_china_lawyer.shtml

Law
Law Fine-tuned against Terror Financing
Xinhua News Agency (via China Daily), May 19, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-05/18/content_9865096.htm

最高检公安部86种经济案件立案追诉标准(全文) (Full Text in Chinese: Provisions on Standards for Filing and Prosecution of Criminal Cases under Public Security Organs' Jurisdiction (II))
Xinhua News Agency, May 19, 2010
http://news.china.com/zh_cn/news100/11038989/20100519/15941626.html

Trial Focuses on Organ Trafficking Ethics
China Daily, May 19, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-05/19/content_9865353.htm

Police
Outcry over Police Abuse After Ental Patient Fitted Up for Killing
South China Morning Post, May 19, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=d3264112a0ca8210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Protests and Petitions
企业开发致环境灾难 藏区民众抗议遭镇压 (Hundreds in Gansu Protest Cement Plant over Environmental Problems)
Radio Free Asia, May 18, 2010
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/zang-05182010121657.html

Villages Clash over Land Dispute; Six Detained
China Daily, May 19, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-05/19/content_9865359.htm

Public Health
宁夏毒奶粉企业仍在营业 通报有"毒奶"流入广州 (Dairy Firm in Ningxia Selling Tainted Powder Milk Is Still Open)
Guangzhou Daily (via Eastday), May 19, 2010
http://news.eastday.com/c/20100519/u1a5212334.html

State Security
New Rules for Net Mapping
China Daily, May 19, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-05/19/content_9865442.htm

Tibet
China Targets Tibet Artists, Intellectuals: Report
Reuters (via Yahoo! News), May 18, 2010
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100518/wl_nm/us_china_tibet_culture

Tibetans Beaten during Angry Protests
South China Morning Post, May 19, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=c9d64112a0ca8210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Print, Copy Shops Told Not to Deal with Any Documents in Tibetan
South China Morning Post, May 19, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=c6564112a0ca8210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

XUAR
Major Support Package in Pipeline for Xinjiang
Xinhua News Agency (via China Daily), May 17, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-05/17/content_9859997.htm