Access to Justice (司法公正)

河南“呕吐死”案再审 证人:死者曾遭刑讯逼供 (Henan court retries case of detained man who “vomited to death,” witness says he had been tortured for confession)
Xinhua, May 14, 2015
http://www.js.xinhuanet.com/2015-05/14/c_1115277498.htm

最高人民法院成立民法典编纂工作研究小组 (Supreme People’s Court establishes a Civil Code research working group)
The Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China, May 12, 2015
http://www.court.gov.cn/zixun-xiangqing-14441.html

Related:
对《中华人民共和国民法典·民法总则专家建议稿（征求意见稿）》公开征求意见的通知 (Civil Code: experts’ draft published for comment)
China Law Society, April 20, 2015
http://www.chinalaw.org.cn/Column/Column_View.aspx?ColumnID=81&InfoID=14364

Access to Information (信息公开)

村民给国土局发邮件申请信息公开 遭门卫拒收 (Villagers mail OGI request to the Land Resources Department, only to be rejected by “a bouncer”)
XDKB.net, May 15, 2015
http://news.sohu.com/20150515/n413087238.shtml

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

Chinese human rights lawyers Pu Zhiqiang indicted for “inciting ethnic hatred”
South China Morning Post, May 15, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1798074/chinese-human-rights-lawyer-pu-zhiqiang-indicted

VOA连线：浦志强被以涉嫌煽动民族仇恨、寻衅滋事罪起诉 (Pu Zhiqiang indicted on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and picking quarrels and provoking troubles [VIDEO])
Voice of American, May 15, 2015
http://www.voachinese.com/media/video/voaweishi-20150515-voaconnects-pu-zhiqiang/2768691.html

Related Twitter post:
@49laihong: 斯伟江：浦的涉案言论完全在言论自由的范畴，浦的发言是基于对这个国家、人民的爱和责任，对浦志强的起诉没有法律依据，浦志强无罪。判决结果已经可以预料，但历史的判决一定会宣告老浦无罪。

@49laihong: Si Weijiang: Pu’s words (for which he’s being charged) are completely within the scope of freedom of expression, and are based on his love and respect for China & its citizens. His prosecution has no legal basis, Pu is not guilty. We can already guess what the verdict will be, but history will declare his innocence.

Government Accountability (政府问责)

Police officer cleared of fatal shooting at railway station
China Daily, May 14, 2015
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015-05/14/content_20717219.htm

Related:
China debates its own police shooting incident
Wall Street Journal, May 14, 2015
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/05/14/china-debates-its-own-police-shooting-incident/

黑龙江庆安检察院干警实名举报检察长 省检察院调查 (Heilongjiang procuratorate investigates its Qing An local branch chief, following report by branch police using own name)
China News, May 13, 2015
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2015-05/13/c_127793990.htm

China catches 150 corruption suspects overseas since the start of the year
South China Morning Post, May 15, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1797780/china-catches-150-corruption-suspects-overseas-start

Corrupt Chinese official “sought illicit gains by meddling in land deals”
South China Morning Post, May 14 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1796423/former-chinese-party-chief-received-100-million-yuan-return

Operation Fox Hunt secures return of 150 economic fugitives from 32 countries
China Daily, May 15,2015
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015-05/15/content_20722172.htm

Hong Kong (香港)

Hong Kong ministers and officials slow to sign pro-reform petition
South China Morning Post, May 15, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1797519/hong-kong-ministers-and-officials-slow-sign-pro-reform

Meeting sought between democrats and Beijing
Radio Television Hong Kong, May 15, 2015
http://rthk.hk/rthk/news/englishnews/20150515/news_20150515_56_1099681.htm

陳文敏認為政改表決6月非死線　可延遲數月 (Former HKU law dean Johannes Chan: June is not final deadline to vote on political reform package, a few months’ delay is possible)
Radio Television Hong Kong, May 15, 2015
http://rthk.hk/rthk/news/expressnews/20150515/news_20150515_55_1099760.htm

法律學者：一地兩檢倘列入基本法附件破壞法治 (Law academic: Juxtaposed border control, if included in Basic Law annex, would harm rule of law)
Radio Television Hong Kong, May 15, 2015
http://rthk.hk/rthk/news/expressnews/20150515/news_20150515_55_1099766.htm

Related:
梁愛詩相信有辦法解決高鐵一地兩檢爭議 (Former HK Secretary for Justice Elsie Leung: there are ways to settle the disputes over juxtaposed border control)
Radio Television Hong Kong, May 15, 2015
http://rthk.hk/rthk/news/expressnews/20150515/news_20150515_55_1099749.htm

Counterterrorism (反恐)

国家反恐局：300名中国籍极端分子在叙利亚参战 (State Bureau of Counter-Terrorism: 300 Chinese citizens are extremist elements involved in Syrian fighting) )
China Daily, May 15, 2015
http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2015-05-15/144031836890.shtml

S. Korea, China, Japan discuss counter-terrorism, cybersecurity
Yonhap News, May 15, 2015
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2015/05/15/31/0301000000AEN20150515008700315F.html

Nation vows improved efforts to fight terror
China Daily, May 15, 2015
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015-05/15/content_20722916.htm

Chinese police order residents in a Xinjiang Prefecture to turn in passports
The New York Times, May 14, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/world/asia/china-passports-xinjiang-ili-kazakh-autonomous-prefecture.html

Tibetans, Uyghurs “blacklisted” at hotels in Chinese cities
Radio Free Asia, May 15, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/world/asia/china-passports-xinjiang-ili-kazakh-autonomous-prefecture.html

Opinion and Editorial (观点和社论)

北京为何要打倒传知行研究所和郭玉闪 (Why Beijing is cracking down on Transition Institute and Guo Yushan)
Voice of America, May 15, 2015
http://www.voachinese.com/content/io-20150514-guo-yushan/2767591.html

Access to Justice (司法公正)

北京“民告官” 乡镇政府败诉率居首 (Beijing's high court issues 2014 report on administrative lawsuits, village and township government litigants are most frequent losers)
People’s Daily, May 13, 2015
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2015/0513/c1001-26992467.html

Tiger chairs, electric batons, and chili oil: report finds Chinese police are still torturing suspects
Vice News, May 13, 2015
https://news.vice.com/article/tiger-chairs-electric-batons-and-chili-oil-report-finds-chinese-police-are-still-torturing-suspects

Related:
人权观察：警察刑讯在中国仍普遍存在 (Human Rights Watch: Police torture is still common in China)
Voice of America, May 14, 2015
http://www.voachinese.com/media/video/voaweishi-news-china-rights-20150513/2765793.html

Tiger Chairs and Cell Bosses: police torture of criminal suspects in China
Human Rights Watch, May 13, 2015
http://www.hrw.org/node/134845

内蒙古开通蒙汉双语12348热线 打造公共法律服务平台 (Inner Mongolia launches Mongolian-Chinese bilingual hotline as a public legal service platform)
Legal Daily, May 14, 2015
http://npc.people.com.cn/n/2015/0514/c14576-26999343.html

家庭暴力引发“母亲杀子”悲剧 北京二中院昨公开审理此案 (Beijing court hears case of mother killing son in family with history of domestic violence)
China Women's News, May 13, 2015
http://www.china-woman.com/2015-05/14/content_62361.htm

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

China’s taxi drivers force local governments to take action against ride hailing apps
China Labour Bulletin, May 14, 2015
http://www.clb.org.hk/en/content/china%E2%80%99s-taxi-drivers-force-local-governments-take-action-against-ride-hailing-apps

China workers said to protest pay at indebted state firm
Bloomberg Business, May 12, 2015
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-12/china-workers-said-to-protest-pay-at-indebted-state-firm

Related:
Chinese machinery workers protest proposed layoffs
Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2015
http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-machinery-workers-protest-against-proposed-layoffs-1431534642

Government Accountability, (政府问责)

北京設追逃辦實行一人一方案 外逃實行季度零報告 (Beijing establishes office for tracking down fugitives, aims to have zero overseas fugitives in quarterly report)
Beijing News, May 14, 2015
http://politics.people.com.cn/BIG5/n/2015/0514/c1001-26997978.html

China’s Communist party is struggling to guard against corruption: graft-buster
South China Morning Post, May 13, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1795175/chinas-top-graft-buster-likens-battle-against

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

China to increase video surveillance in security push
Reuters, May 13, 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/13/us-china-security-idUSKBN0NY1F420150513

China imposes smartwatch and wearable tech army ban
British Broadcasting Corporation, May 13, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32718266

Hong Kong (香港)

香港政改民調爭論：學者堅稱民調可信 (Debate over HK political reform polling system: academics firmly reiterate reliability of the poll)
British Broadcasting Corporation, May 14, 2015
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/trad/china/2015/05/150514_hk_political_reform_poll

香港保安局：1003人因去年 因占中”被捕 (HK Security Bureau: 1,003 people arrested in connection with last year’s Occupy Movement)
Radio Free Asia, May 13, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/Xinwen/15-05132015150810.html

Counterterrorism (反恐)

上海成立民兵无人机侦察分队 可用于救灾反恐 (Shanghai establishes people’s militia drone reconnaissance squad for use in emergency response and counterterrorism)
Beijing Youth Daily, May 13, 2015
http://news.hexun.com/2015-05-14/175817788.html

东盟地区论坛在南宁召开反恐与打击跨国犯罪会议 (Nanning, Guangxi holds ASEAN Regional Forum to discuss counterterrorism and combatting transnational crime)
Xinhua, May 14, 2015
http://world.people.com.cn/n/2015/0514/c1002-27002115.html

Related:
ARF meeting on anti-terrorism convenes in Nanning
Xinhua, May 14, 2015
http://english.chinamil.com.cn/news-channels/today-headlines/2015-05/14/content_6491624.htm

Opinion and Editorial (观点和社论)

China’s feminist awakening
The New York Times, May 13, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/opinion/xiao-meili-chinas-feminist-awakening.html

For whom the bell tolls: one Chinese NGO’s alleged crime of “illegal business operation”
China Change, May 13, 2015
http://chinachange.org/2015/05/13/to-whom-the-bell-tolls-one-chinese-ngos-alleged-crime-of-illegal-business-operation/

郭玉闪和土气的传知行 (Guo Yushan and the homegrown Transition Institute)
Jin Caiyuan (WeChat), May 14, 2015
http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA3OTYwMjE3Mg==&mid=205520704&idx=1&sn=f06cd6a1474cd87d2eb429b0682fb566#rd

Access to Justice (司法公正)

人民法院报微博煽动人民“推墙”？左派惊呼下删文 (Did the People’s Court News’ weibo incite people to “push the wall”? Leftists alarmed as post is deleted)
Radio France Internationale, May 13, 2015
http://cn.rfi.fr/中国/20150513-人民法院报微博煽动人民“推墙”？左派惊呼下删文/

See the original post:
People’s Court News, May 11, 2015
[Good evening friends] We’ll encounter different kinds of wall. We push the wall 10 times, it doesn’t collapse. We push the wall 100 times, it doesn’t collapse. Even if we push it 1,000 or 10,000 times, it still doesn’t collapse. The wall will not collapse—but in pushing it forcefully, our muscles will be strengthened, and we will become more powerful human beings. That the wall doesn’t collapse shouldn’t be our excuse for being weak. –Cai Kangyong

【晚安朋友】我们会遇见各种墙。我们推墙十下，墙也不会倒；我们推墙百下，墙也不会倒；我们推墙千下万下，墙还是不会倒。墙就是不会倒，但我们会因为用力推墙而肌肉强健、变成有力量的人。墙不倒、不该成为我们自愿当弱者的借口。——蔡康永

Police torture in China still routine despite reforms: rights group
Reuters, May 12, 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/13/us-china-rights-idUSKBN0NY04W20150513

Related:
Tiger Chairs and Cell Bosses: police torture of criminal suspects in China
Human Rights Watch, May 13, 2015
http://www.hrw.org/node/134845

Conviction rates count more in Chinese justice than innocence
The New York Times, May 12, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/13/world/asia/conviction-rates-count-more-in-chinese-justice-than-innocence.html

Tibetan father and son are assaulted by police in Driru
Radio Free Asia, May 12, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/assaulted-05122015134755.html

错案警示五年坚守防范底线 (In 5th annual review of wrongful cases, more than 100 Henan judges commit to upholding justice)
Legal Daily, May 11, 2015
http://epaper.legaldaily.com.cn/fzrb/content/20150511/Articel02002GN.htm

临漳民调筑牢农村法治防线 (Dispute mediation in Linzhang County, Hebei, strengthens rule of law in rural areas)
Legal Daily, May 12, 2015
http://epaper.legaldaily.com.cn/fzrb/content/20150512/Articel01002GN.htm

Related:

中华人民共和国人民调解法
People's Mediation Law of the People's Republic of China
The National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China
CH: http://www.npc.gov.cn/npc/xinwen/2010-08/28/content_1593344.htm
EN: http://www.lawinfochina.com/display.aspx?lib=law&id=8266&CGid=

Access to Information (信息公开)

Is China's “Sunshine Law” within reach?
The Diplomat, May 12, 2015
http://thediplomat.com/2015/05/is-chinas-sunshine-law-within-reach/

北京：下周一公安部将重点打击4类网络政治谣言/知秋 (Ministry of Public Security to take special action against four types of online political rumors starting May 18)
Boxun, May 12, 2015
http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/china/2015/05/201505120610.shtml

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

One Love: How foreign NGOs and governments should respond to China’s Draft Foreign NGO Law
China Law and Policy, May 12, 2015
http://chinalawandpolicy.com/2015/05/12/one-love-how-foreign-ngos-governments-should-respond-to-chinas-draft-foreign-ngo-law/

Related:
境外非政府组织管理法（草案二次审议稿）全文 (Overseas NGO Draft Law Foreign NGO Management Law (2nd draft for review)) [Proposed Overseas NGO Draft Law foreign NGO management law now open for public comment]
The National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China
http://www.npc.gov.cn/npc/xinwen/lfgz/flca/2015-05/05/content_1935666.htm

Cheatsheet for understanding the FNGO Law
China Law Translate, May 11, 2015
http://chinalawtranslate.com/cheatsheet-for-understanding-the-fngo-law/

Government Accountability (政府问责)

China and Russia agree to cooperate to fight corruption
South China Morning Post, May 13, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/1794703/china-and-russia-agree-cooperate-fight-corruption

Woman to sue over police killing of her son in China's Heilongjiang
Radio Free Asia, May 12, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/police-05122015143505.html

Related:
黑龙江庆安徐纯合被铁路警察击毙现场又一视频 (Heilongjiang fatal shooting by railway police [VIDEO])
Boxun, May 12, 2015
http://www.boxun.com/news/gb/china/2015/05/201505122153.shtml

庆安警方接受枪击案律师信息公开申请 (Qing'an police receive OGI application from lawyers in shooting case)
Sina, May 11, 2015
http://news.sina.com.cn/c/zg/jpm/2015-05-11/19301024.html

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

借编纂民法典东风强化个人信息保护 (Expert suggests incorporating individual privacy protections into draft civil code)
Legal Daily, May 12, 2015
http://epaper.legaldaily.com.cn/fzrb/content/20150512/Articel03002GN.htm

Hong Kong (香港)

Brother of Occupy Central volunteer beaten up in police car following arrest, court hears
South China Morning Post, May 13, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1794612/brother-occupy-central-volunteer-beaten-police-car

誤控智障男事件 張超雄批評警方屢次說謊 (Lawmaker Fernando Cheung criticizes police for lying repeatedly about the wrongful arrest for murder of autistic man)
Radio Television Hong Kong, May 13, 2015
http://rthk.hk/rthk/news/expressnews/20150513/news_20150513_55_1099204.htm

劉慧卿指官員落區未能回應市民致更多人反感 (Democratic Party Emily Lau: officials’ inability to respond to residents during community outreach increases popular opposition to political reform proposal)
Radio Television Hong Kong, May 13, 2015
http://rthk.hk/rthk/news/expressnews/20150513/news_20150513_55_1099287.htm