Hong Kong

After Losing Family, Transsexual Activist Pushes for Rights
South China Morning Post, December 5, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1098047/after-losing-family-transsexual-activist-rallies-rights

Human Rights Defenders

Nobel Laureates Call on China's Xi to Release Jailed Peace Prize Winner Liu
Reuters, December 4, 2012
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9721623/Nobel-laureates-call-on-Chinas-Xi-to-release-jailed-Peace-Prize-winner-Liu.html

To read the open letter, see:
134 Nobel Laureates Urge Incoming Chinese President Xi Jinping to Release Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo and Wife Liu Xia
December 4, 2012
http://en.rsf.org/china-134-nobel-laureates-urge-incoming-04-12-2012,43757.html

Migrant Workers

一代中国农民工的集体记忆：四平米的家 (Collective Memories of a Generation of Migrant Workers: 4sqm Home)
China Youth Daily, December 5, 2012
http://ndnews.oeeee.com/html/201212/05/6766.html

Protests and Petitions

Police Halt Protest Outside CCTV Tower
Global Times, December 5, 2012
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/748286.shtml

北京突然釋放7萬上訪民眾 (Beijing Unexpectedly Releases 70K Petitioners from Jiujingzhuang Black Jail)
Radio Taiwan International, December 4, 2012
http://n.yam.com/rti/politics/20121204/20121204028048.html

Related:
Beijing Black Jail 'Releases Thousands of Petitioners'
South China Morning Post, December 5, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1097971/beijing-black-jail-releases-thousands-petitioners

“黑保安”头目被指应邀进京 其父称，禹州信访局曾找王高伟“说给他找了一个好活” (Family of Ringleader of Group on Trial for Illegally Detaining Henan Petitioners in Beijing Says He Had Been Invited to Do So)
Southern Metropolis Daily, December 5, 2012
http://epaper.oeeee.com/A/html/2012-12/05/content_1767163.htm

Tibet

Call for Freedom Written in Blood
Radio Free Asia, December 4, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/blood-12042012162826.html

XUAR

Uyghur Scholar Harassed
Radio Free Asia, December 4, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/scholar-12042012144309.html

Education

非沪籍女孩无法参加上海中考 辍学争取异地高考 (Shanghai: 15-yo Student Forced to Study at Home Due to Lack of Residency, Challenges Authorities for Right to Take Uni Entrance Exam in Shanghai)
The Beijing Times, December 3, 2012
http://news.163.com/12/1203/03/8HP4JLS400014AED.html

Related:
Shanghainese Youth Borrow a Page from Hong Kong's Regionalist Hate Speech
South China Morning Post, December 4, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1097261/shanghainese-youth-borrow-page-hong-kongs-regionalist-hate-speech

Human Rights Defenders

Woman Released from Labor Camp a 2nd Time
Shenzhen Daily, December 4, 2012
http://www.szdaily.com/content/2012-12/04/content_7461637.htm

Related:
郭大军母亲劳教案代理律师王甫：行政起诉状（全文） (Administrative Suit against the Lanzhou Municipal Committee on the Administration of Reeducation-Through-Labor)
Wang Fu (lawyer representing Zhao Meifu), December 3, 2012
http://weiba.weibo.com/10314/t/z81gAu7Vg

探儿母亲遭劳教事件再激网络民愤 (Gansu Woman Who Previously Petitioned Ordered to 1 Year Reeducation-Through-Labor after Being Intercept on Way Home from Trip to Visit to Son in Beijing)
British Broadcasting Corporation, November 22, 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chinese_news/2012/11/121122_china_laojiao.shtml

Lawyer Warned Off Foreign Media
Radio Free Asia, December 3, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/lawyer-12032012173915.html

A copy of the appeal calling for the abolishment of the RTL system is available online at:
要求立即撤销《国务院关於劳动教养问题的决定》等劳教行政法规的公民权力主张书
http://www.hrichina.org/cn/content/3636

Law

被劳教村官任建宇:若能推动废除劳教我愿站出来 (Village Official Ordered to Reeducation: I'm Willing to Take a Stand If It'll Help Abolish the Reeducation-Through-Labor System)
China Newsweek, December 3, 2012
http://news.sina.com.cn/c/sd/2012-12-03/141725718681.shtml

Migrant Workers

农民工桥下死亡 有关部门回应未免太着急 (Zhengzhou, Henan: Migrant Worker, Unwilling to Seek Medical Help, Dies beneath Overpass)
Dahe Daily, December 3, 2012
http://news.xinhuanet.com/local/2012-12/04/c_124038814.htm

Public Health

Advocates Call for Euthanasia Law
China Daily, December 4, 2012
http://english.eastday.com/e/121204/u1a7037089.html

Hong Kong

Myths about Poor Justify Hong Kong's 'Third World' Spending on Social Welfare
South China Morning Post, November 30, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1094265/myths-about-poor-justify-hong-kongs-third-world-spending-social

Human Rights Defenders

Blind Activist Chen Guangcheng Appeals to China's Xi Jinping
British Broadcasting Corporation, December 3, 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-20576828

外交部不滿別國干涉陳克貴被判刑 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs Not Pleased That Other Countries Are Meddling in Sentence of Chen Guangcheng's Nephew Chen Kegui)
Metro Radio, December 3, 2012
http://www.metroradio.com.hk/997/News/Default.aspx?NewsID=20121203165641

Related:
美批中国审陈克贵司法不公 (US: Chen Kegui Trial Unjust)
Sinchew Daily, November 30, 2012
http://dailynews.sina.com/gb/news/int/sinchewdaily/20121130/17194010344.html

Law

Black Jail Sentence Fake: Court
Global Times, December 3, 2012
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/747787.shtml

Related:
10截訪者首判囚 「中國人權里程碑」 (10 Men Who Intercepted Henan Petitioners Tried and Convicted of "Illegal Detention" in "Milestone" for Human Rights)
Ming Pao, November 29, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/20121129/-1761-2835229/1.html

河北2名青年骂官员被劳教 或成“劳教任务”牺牲品 (Two Hebei Youths Ordered to Reeducation for Scolding Official)
China Newsweek, December 2, 2012
http://ndnews.oeeee.com/html/201212/02/5997.html

Public Health

Pilot Project on Mainland Helps Identify More Patients with TB
South China Morning Post, December 3, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1096041/pilot-project-mainland-helps-identify-more-patients-tb

Tibet

四川若尔盖县再有藏人自焚抗议 流亡西藏内阁称将用行动缓和藏区局势 (Ngawa, Sichuan: Another Self-immolation)
Radio Free Asia, November 30, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/xz-11302012151821.html

Civil Society

China AIDS Activists Reject Li Olive Branch
Agence France-Presse, November 29, 2012
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/323720/china-aids-activists-reject-li-olive-branch

Human Rights Defenders

快讯：陈克贵故意伤害案今开庭 亲属措手不及 (Chen Kegui, to Be Tried Friday Afternoon -- Family Only Just Informed)
Voice of America, November 29, 2012
http://www.voachinese.com/content/chen-kegui-trial-urgent-20121130/1555720.html

Related:
Family of Chen Kegui Rejects Officially Appointed Lawyers
Human Rights in China, July 25, 2012
http://www.hrichina.org/content/6211

維權律師劉曉原重獲發牌 (Rights Defense Lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan Finally Receives Renewed License to Practice)
Ming Pao, November 30, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/20121130/-162-2836368/1.html

Land Policy

Chinese Thugs Knocked Out by Amateur Kung Fu Fans
The Telegraph, November 29, 2012
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9710514/Chinese-thugs-knocked-out-by-amateur-Kung-Fu-fans.html

Law

CCTV Joins Media Bandwagon Critiquing China's Labor Camps
Want China Times, November 30, 2012
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20121130000037&cid=1103