Access to Justice (司法公正)

记者无国界呼吁欧盟外长为高瑜向中国施压 (Reporters Without Borders calls on EU foreign minister to put pressure on China over Gao Yu’s case)
Voice of America, July 30, 2015
http://www.voachinese.com/content/gaoyu-case-20150729/2884422.html

Related:
EU foreign ministers must press China about ailing detained journalist
Reporters Without Borders, July 29, 2015
http://en.rsf.org/china-eu-foreign-ministers-must-press-29-07-2015,48160.html

State Council approves legal draft against domestic violence
Xinhua, July 29, 2015
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-07/29/c_134460638.htm

国内首例“确有悔改表现”减刑案在河南开审 (Henan court hears country’s first case on sentence-reduction on basis of “showing remorse”)
China Youth Daily, July 30, 2015
http://zqb.cyol.com/html/2015-07/30/nw.D110000zgqnb_20150730_4-04.htm

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

Ai Weiwei denied six-month UK visa
艾未未：英国政府拒发6个月商务签证
BBC, July 30, 2015
EN: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-33714740
CH: http://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/china/2015/07/150730_ai_weiwei_britain

UK’s Ai Weiwei visa rejection part of bigger game
Financial Times, July 30, 2015
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/db56221c-36ae-11e5-b05b-b01debd57852.html

法轮功学员的亲属旧金山中领馆前举行记者会要求中共释放被抓捕的亲人 (Families of Falungong practitioners hold press conference in front of Chinese Embassy in San Francisco to demand release of relatives)
Radio Free Asia, July 29, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/ck-07292015102734.html

Chen Guangcheng vows to pursue justice as nephew is released from jail
Radio Free Asia, July 29, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-chen-07292015140944.html

China detains Christian pastors for resistance to cross demolitions
Radio Free Asia, July 29, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-crosses-07292015101743.html

Related:
China's crusade to remove crosses from churches “is for safety concerns”
The Guardian, July 29, 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/29/china-crusade-remove-crosses-from-churches-safety-concerns

中俄联合抵制西方NGO？ (Sino-Russian joint resistance to Western NGOs?)
Radio Free Asia, July 29, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/commentaries/weipo_com-07292015081909.html

Government Accountability (政府问责)

China’s Communist Party sets out criteria for demoting incompetent officials
South China Morning Post, July 29, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1844809/chinas-communist-party-releases-rules-setting-out-how

With changes at top, China's land ministry aims to bolster oversight of graft-prone sector
South China Morning Post, July 29, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1844952/changes-top-chinas-land-ministry-aims-bolster-oversight

After appearing drunk on television, Chinese official faces inquiry
The New York Times, July 29, 2015
http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/after-appearing-drunk-on-television-chinese-official-faces-inquiry/

Chinese prosecutor in murder trial of Gu Kailai found dead
Financial Times, July 29, 2015
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/66ebaa2c-35dd-11e5-b05b-b01debd57852.html

China watchdog says graft risk controls tightened at central bank
Channel NewsAsia, July 30, 2015
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/china-watchdog-says-graft/2017242.html

China anti-graft purge recovers $6.2bn in ill-gotten gains
Financial Times, July 29, 2015
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f896a9a2-35d5-11e5-b05b-b01debd57852.html

环保部原副部长张力军涉嫌严重违纪违法接受调查--中纪委 (Former deputy environmental protection minister accused of corruption)
Reuters, July 30, 2015
http://cn.reuters.com/article/2015/07/30/cn-anti-corruption-idCNKCS0Q401F20150730

武汉市公安局成立内保支队 (Wuhan PSB establishes internal security detachment)
Legal Daily, July 29, 2015
http://legal.people.com.cn/n/2015/0729/c188502-27376324.html

Critics: China’s president using law to tighten grip on power
Voice of America, July 29, 2015
http://www.voanews.com/content/chinas-president-uses-law-to-tighten-grip-on-power/2883135.html

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

FireChat, darling of Occupy Central protesters, throws down gauntlet to WhatsApp with off-the-grid texting
South China Morning Post, July 30, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/tech/social-gadgets/article/1844837/firechat-darling-occupy-central-protesters-throws-down-gauntlet

Hong Kong (香港)

HKU struggles to contain fallout over delayed appointment of Johannes Chan Man-mun as pro-vice-chancellor
South China Morning Post, July 30, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1844970/university-hong-kong-struggles-contain-fallout

Counterterrorism (反恐)

中国和土耳其将共同合作打击恐怖主义 (China & Turkey agree to closer joint counterterrorism efforts)
Deutsche Welle, July 29, 2015
http://www.dw.com/zh/中国和土耳其将共同合作打击恐怖主义/a-18616364

Opinion and Editorial (观点和社论)

China's crackdown on lawyers and rights
The New York Times, July 30, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/30/opinion/chinas-crackdown-on-lawyers-and-rights.html

Interview with a Wenzhou pastor: The Chinese government’s large-scale destruction of crosses in Zhejiang province
China Change, July 29, 2015
http://chinachange.org/2015/07/29/interview-with-a-wenzhou-pastor-the-chinese-governments-large-scale-destruction-of-crosses-in-zhejiang-province/

After mother's death on China-made escalator, safety standards must be enhanced
South China Morning Post, July 30, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1844921/after-mothers-death-china-made-escalator-safety-standards

Related:
湖北“吞人”同款電梯全國4648部 總工程師否認蓋板尺寸不符 (Mfr of Hubei’s “man-eating” escalator sold 4648 sets of same model in China; engineering director denies accusation that measurements of cover plate are off )
South China Morning Post, July 30, 2015
http://www.nanzao.com/tc/national/14edcf7e7199523/hu-bei-tun-ren-tong-kuan-dian-ti-quan-guo-4648-zong-gong-cheng-shi-fou-ren-gai-ban-chi-cun-bu-fu

Access to Justice (司法公正)

Jailed journalist Gao Yu’s health deteriorates, brother quotes her as saying “I don’t want to die here”
South China Morning Post, July 29, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1844667/jailed-journalist-gao-yus-health-deteriorates-i-dont-want-die

Related:
专访：高瑜健康状况不佳 将提取保候审 (Interview: Gao Yu’s health deteriorates, lawyer to apply for release on bail pending trial)
Deutsche Welle, July 29, 2015
http://www.dw.com/zh/专访高瑜健康状况不佳-将提取保候审/a-18615391

China mass arrests to have “chilling effect” on Aus firms
Lawyers Weekly, July 29, 2015
http://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/news/16893-china-mass-arrests-to-have-chilling-effect-on-aus-firms

卷宗之谜 (File Mystery: Court lost case file of man who waited 19 years to appeal)
China Youth Daily, July 29, 2015
http://zqb.cyol.com/html/2015-07/29/nw.D110000zgqnb_20150729_5-09.htm

Access to Information (信息公开)

Videogame industry’s next battle: Chinese censors
Wall Street Journal, July 28, 2015
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/07/28/videogame-industrys-next-battle-chinese-censors/

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

声援“屠夫”人士遭警告失联 独立中文笔会诗人野火被失踪 (Citizens in Wuhan dropped out of communication after voicing support for “Butcher,” Independent Chinese PEN poet “Wild Fire” is disappeared)
Radio Free Asia, July 28, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/xl2-07282015110739.html

Christian protester “beaten unconscious” in scuffles outside church in China
Hong Kong Free Press, July 29, 2015
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/07/29/christian-protester-beaten-unconscious-in-scuffles-outside-church-in-china/

These are the secret code words that let you criticize the Chinese government
Washington Post, July 28, 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/07/29/these-are-the-secret-code-words-that-let-you-criticize-the-chinese-government/

隔行隔山？(Former prosecutor sues lawyers association with aim of becoming lawyer)
China Youth Daily, July 29, 2015
http://zqb.cyol.com/html/2015-07/29/nw.D110000zgqnb_20150729_3-09.htm

Government Accountability (政府问责)

Beijing must not win 2022 Winter Olympics bid, say human rights activists
The Guardian, July 29, 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jul/29/beijing-2022-winter-olympics-bid-human-rights-activists

Related:
人权人士请求国际奥委会拒绝北京主办冬奥会 (Human rights activists ask IOC to reject Beijing’s bid to host 2022 Winter Olympics)
Radio Free Asia, July 28, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/shaoshuminzu/nu-07282015115540.html

HRIC Urges IOC to Postpone Host City Election for 2022 Olympics
Human Rights in China, July 28, 2015
http://www.hrichina.org/en/press-work/statement/hric-urges-ioc-postpone-host-city-election-2022-olympics

China indicts former Party Chief of Xinjiang's capital for graft
Voice of America, July 28, 2015
http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-china-indicts-former-party-chief-of-xinjiang-capital-for-graft/2881396.html

A Chinese Supreme Court justice falls from grace
Foreign Policy, July 28, 2015
https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/07/28/china-supreme-court-corruption-crackdown/

China says recovered 38.7 billion yuan in graft losses
Channel NewsAsia, July 29, 2015
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/china-says-recovered-38-7/2014540.html

Dark corner of China's rise: A surge in trafficking of children
Christian Science Monitor, July 27, 2015
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2015/0727/Dark-corner-of-China-s-rise-A-surge-in-trafficking-of-children

男子被错关获13万“平冤款”一年未到 检方称财政没钱 (Man fails to get RMB 130,000 state compensation for wrongful imprisonment after 1-year wait, procuratorate says there is no money in public coffers)
The Paper, July 29, 2015
Available at: http://www.tynews.com.cn/eye/content/2015-07/29/content_991948.htm

查处总数比去年明显下降但各类单项问题均有增长, 中纪委纠“四风”半年报揭示哪些问题 (Total number of investigations in first half of 2015 dropped visibly compared to same period in 2014, but that of various single item issues has increased: Issues revealed by the CCDI's half-yearly report on its investigation of the “four winds”)
Legal Daily, July 29, 2015
http://epaper.legaldaily.com.cn/fzrb/content/20150729/Articel04002GN.htm

检察介入, 涉毒人员袭警被毙 (Procuratorate gets involved, drug suspect shot dead by police)
Legal Daily, July 29, 2015
http://epaper.legaldaily.com.cn/fzrb/content/20150729/Articel05014GN.htm

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

China pushes to rewrite rules of global Internet
Wall Street Journal, July 28, 2015
http://www.wsj.com/articles/china-pushes-to-rewrite-rules-of-global-internet-1438112980

Hong Kong (香港)

港大校委堅持延後任命副校 學生衝入會場 兩委員送院 (HKU Council continues to postpone Pro-VC appointment, two members hospitalized after students’ charged into meeting)
South China Morning Post, July 29, 2015
http://www.nanzao.com/tc/hk-macau-tw/14ed79b2ac4da2d/gang-da-xiao-wei-jian-chi-yan-hou-ren-ming-fu-xiao-xue-sheng-chong-ru-hui-chang-liang-wei-yuan-song-yuan

Hurt by council's decision, says Johannes Chan
Radio Television Hong Kong, July 29, 2015
http://rthk.hk/rthk/news/englishnews/20150729/news_20150729_56_1119795.htm

Opinion and Editorial (观点和社论)

觀點：香港傳媒來去何從？ (View point: What will the Hong Kong media be like in the future?)
British Broadcasting Corporation, July 28, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/china/2015/07/150728_hongkong_media_google_hangout

Access to Justice (司法公正)

China versus the lawyers
The Diplomat, July 28, 2015
http://thediplomat.com/2015/07/china-versus-the-lawyers/

A thorn in the side of Walmart: Wang Shishu goes to court again
China Labour Bulletin, July 27, 2015
http://www.clb.org.hk/en/content/thorn-side-walmart-wang-shishu-goes-court-again

高瑜狱中病情恶化，被要求解聘律师和认罪 (Gao Yu’s health deteriorates in prison, is asked by authorities to dismiss lawyers and admit guilt)
Boxun, July 28, 2015
http://www.boxun.com/news/gb/china/2015/07/201507282123.shtml#.VbeZEdJVhHw

Access to Information (信息公开)

Escalator death in China sets off furor online
The New York Times, July 28, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/world/asia/escalator-death-in-china-sets-off-furor-online.html

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

广东揭阳村民数月抗议土地被强占 警方凌晨入村暴力抓捕维权代表 (Jieyang (Guangdong) villagers protest for months over forcibly occupied land, police detain 2 rights defenders in early morning)
Radio Free Asia, July 27, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/yf2-07272015113249.html

湖北逾百民办教师省教育厅维权遭警方驱散 (Over 100 teachers of privately-run schools in Hubei protesting for better treatment are dispersed by police)
Radio Free Asia, July 27, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/xl2-07272015115332.html

Activist in bid to find whereabouts of detained Chinese rights lawyer Wang Yu
Radio Free Asia, July 27, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-lawyer-07272015140807.html

China's Christians protest “evil” Communist campaign to tear down crosses
The Guardian, July 27, 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/27/chinas-christians-protest-evil-communist-campaign-to-tear-down-crosses

Related:
“Chanting monks” deployed in standoff over cross demolition in China’s Zhejiang
Radio Free Asia, July 27, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-churches-07272015103543.html

构建多层次全方位立体化可持续服务机制, 北京律师打造公益法律服务品牌 (Constructing a multi-level, comprehensive, three-dimensional, sustainable service mechanism: Beijing lawyers forge a public interest legal services brand)
Legal Daily, July 28, 2015
http://epaper.legaldaily.com.cn/fzrb/content/20150728/Articel02001GN.htm

湖北志愿服务条例草案提交省人大常委会审议, 政府不再直接参与志愿服务日常管理 (Standing Committee of Hubei’s People’s Congress to deliberate draft regulations on volunteer services that would end day-to-day government supervision of volunteer services)
Legal Daily, July 28, 2015
http://epaper.legaldaily.com.cn/fzrb/content/20150728/Articel03004GN.htm

Government Accountability (政府问责)

Biggest number of Chinese provincial-level corruption suspects “caught in Guangdong”
South China Morning Post, July 27, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1843983/biggest-number-chinese-provincial-level-corruption

河北重新修订信访条例, 建立重大信访问题倒查责任制 (Hebei once again amends its petition regulations, establishes investigation responsibility system for major petition problems)
Legal Daily, July 28, 2015
http://epaper.legaldaily.com.cn/fzrb/content/20150728/Articel03003GN.htm

China/Kazakhstan: 2022 games major test of Olympic reforms
Human Rights Watch, July 21, 2015
https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/07/21/china/kazakhstan-2022-games-major-test-olympic-reforms

取保候审不属国家赔偿范围 (Release on “guarantee pending further investigation” does not fall within scope of state compensation)
Anhui Daily Village Edition, July 28, 2015
http://epaper.anhuinews.com/html/ahrbncb/20150728/article_3339102.shtml

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

Michael Chertoff makes the case against back doors
Emptywheel, July 26, 2015
https://www.emptywheel.net/2015/07/26/michael-chertoff-makes-the-case-against-back-doors/

950 million Android phones can be hijacked by malicious text messages
Ars Technica, July 27, 2015
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/07/950-million-android-phones-can-be-hijacked-by-malicious-text-messages/

Hong Kong (香港)

港大校友請願促推翻先揀選副校長的決定 (HKU alumni petition to revoke pre-selection of pro-vice-chancellor)
Radio Television Hong Kong, July 28, 2015
http://rthk.hk/rthk/news/expressnews/20150728/news_20150728_55_1119595.htm

Related:
港大校委會開會　馮敬恩冀立即處理副校長任命 (HKU Council to hold meeting, Student Union President requests immediate resolution of pro-vice-chancellor appointment )
Radio Television Hong Kong, July 28, 2015
http://rthk.hk/rthk/news/expressnews/20150728/news_20150728_55_1119585.htm

Hong Kong's precarious press freedom situation
Al Jazeera, July 26, 2015
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/07/hong-kong-press-freedom-150726113025983.html

China liaison office interfered with HKU pro-vice chancellor appointment, claims ex-editor
Hong Kong Free Press, July 27, 2015
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/07/27/china-liaison-office-interfered-with-hku-pro-vice-chancellor-appointment-claims-ex-editor/

香港学者李欧梵：去年香港占中至少让年轻人发声了 (HK academic Leo Ou-fan Lee: At least Hong Kong young people spoke out in last year’s Occupy Movement)
Radio Free Asia, July 27, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/gangtai/sd-07272015133100.html