维权律师浦志强可能决定放弃上诉 (Human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang may decide to abandon his appeal)
Radio France Internationale, January3, 2016
http://cn.rfi.fr/中国/20160103-中国维权律师浦志强可能决定放弃上诉
China grants courts greater autonomy on limited matters
中国司法改革：前进还是倒退？
New York Times, January 2, 2016
EN: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/world/asia/china-grants-courts-greater-autonomy-on-limited-matters.html
CH: http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20160103/03chinalaw/
French journalist expelled from China for “supporting terrorism” prepares to leave
South China Morning Post, December 31, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1896803/french-journalist-expelled-china-supporting-terrorism
Weibo warriors: The Communist Party’s battle with social media is a closely fought one
The Economist, January 2, 2016
http://www.economist.com/news/china/21684793-communist-partys-battle-social-media-closely-fought-one-weibo-warriors
China’s top 5 censored posts in 2015
Foreign Policy, December 31, 2015
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/12/31/china-top-5-censored-posts-2015-censorship-communist-party-xi-jinping-explosion-pooh/
Cruel irony: China’s Communists are stamping out labor activism
Washington Post, January 3, 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/cruel-irony-chinas-communists-are-stamping-out-labor-activism/2016/01/03/99e986f2-b0bb-11e5-b820-eea4d64be2a1_story.html
Xinjiang seethes under Chinese crackdown
高压下的新疆：恐惧和愤怒在沸腾
New York Times, January 3, 2016
EN: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/world/asia/xinjiang-seethes-under-chinese-crackdown.html
CH: http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20160104/c04xinjiang/
CPC vows resolve in fighting corruption
Xinhua, December 30, 2015
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-12/30/c_134965545.htm
China’s new two-child policy legislation formally comes into force
South China Morning Post, January 1, 2016
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1896991/chinas-new-two-child-policy-legislation-formally-comes-force
Eleven arrested over Shenzhen landslide as authorities swoop and search continues for 62 missing people
South China Morning Post, January 1, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1897357/eleven-arrested-over-shenzhen-landslide-authorities-swoop-and
Microsoft disputes that it covered up China’s relentless hacking of separatist activists
Quartz, December 31, 2015
http://qz.com/584544/microsoft-covered-up-chinas-relentless-hacking-of-separatist-activists/
Hong Kong bookseller's disappearance stokes fears of cross-border kidnaps by mainland Chinese police
Global Voices, January 3, 2016
https://globalvoices.org/2016/01/03/hong-kong-booksellers-disappearance-stokes-fears-of-cross-border-kidnap-by-mainland-chinese-police/
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捍衛出版自由 中共立即交代——社民連就近日李波無故失蹤之聲明 (Defend publishing freedom, request CPC’s immediate reply—League of Social Democrats’ statement regarding recent disappearance of Lee Bo)
InMedia HK, January 4, 2016
http://www.inmediahk.net/node/1039832【短片、書店5人失蹤】公民黨擬立會質詢促黎棟國交代 ([Video] 5 missing from bookstore: Civic Party to inquire with Secretary for Security Lai Tung-kwok at LegCo and demand explanation)
Mingpao, January 4, 2016
http://news.mingpao.com/ins/instantnews/web_tc/article/20160104/s00001/1451880342259视频：香港政党游行声援铜锣湾书店 ([Video] HK political party marches in support of Causeway Bay Bookstore)
British Broadcasting Corporation, January 3, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/multimedia/2016/01/160103_vid_hongkong_bookstore_disappearanceDisappearance of 5 tied to publisher prompts broader worries in Hong Kong
The New York Times, January 4, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/05/world/asia/mighty-current-media-hong-kong-lee-bo.html
More than 3,000 march against Arthur Li’s appointment as chairman of HKU governing council
South China Morning Post, January 3, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1897821/more-3000-march-against-arthur-lis-appointment
香港逾四十个团体元旦游行促梁振英下台 (Over 40 HK groups march on New Year’s day demanding CY Leung step down)
Radio Free Asia, January 2, 2016
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/gangtai/ql1-01022016113908.html
Will China's new law tackle terror?
British Broadcasting Corporation, January 2, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-35199712
No, Pu Zhiqiang’s release is not a victory
ChinaFile, December 31, 2015
https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/no-pu-zhiqiangs-release-not-victory
The day will break at the end of the night—New Year greetings from the 300-member Chinese human rights lawyers group
China Change, January 1, 2016
http://chinachange.org/2016/01/01/the-day-will-break-at-the-end-of-the-night/
“In winter-frozen earth, spring starts to quicken”—A 2016 New Year’s message from China’s labor community
China Change, January 1, 2016
http://chinachange.org/2016/01/01/in-winter-frozen-earth-spring-starts-to-quicken/
The Guardian view on the foreign press in China: expelling the messenger
The Guardian, January 1, 2016
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/01/the-guardian-view-on-the-foreign-press-in-china-expelling-the-messenger
大赦国际：香港正在慢慢窒息 (Amnesty International: Hong Kong is slowly suffocating)
Radio France Internationale, January 3, 2015
http://cn.rfi.fr/中国/20160103-大赦国际：香港正在慢慢窒息
Fast food chain supplier stands trial over meat scandal
Xinhua, December 30, 2015
http://english.sina.com/2015/1230/877508.html
China Holds 23 Journalists, 84 Bloggers in 2015: Press Freedom Report
无国界记者：今年全球110记者遇难 中国囚23人
Radio Free Asia, December 30, 2015
EN: http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-journalists-12302015120019.html
CH: http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/meiti/xl1-12302015104243.html
女权人士武嵘嵘外游未请假 杭州警方令其“写检讨” (Feminist activist Wu Rongrong leaves her province for holidays without “authorization,” Hangzhou police make her write a “self-reflection”)
Radio Free Asia, December 30, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/yf3-12302015120827.html
中国镇压维权律师受影响人数增至316人 (China's crackdown on human rights lawyers: Number of affected people rises to 316)
Voice of America, December 31, 2015
http://www.voachinese.com/content/china-crackdown-lawyers-20151230/3124962.html
China's petitioners risk official ire to pursue complaints in Beijing
Radio Free Asia, December 30, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-petitioners-12302015130558.html
七人声援浦志强被以“寻衅滋事”刑拘 (7 supporters of rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang criminally detained for “picking quarrels and provoking troubles”)
Radio Free Asia, December 30, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/ql1-12302015104914.html
U.S. downplayed evidence of abuses in Chinese detention camps
Legal Daily, December 30, 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-humantrafficking-china-insight-idUSKBN0UD1MD20151230
法媒总编联署谴责北京以莫须有罪名驱逐高洁 (Chief editors of French media denounce Beijing for using trumped-up charges to expel journalist Gauthier)
Radio France Internationale, December 30, 2015
http://cn.rfi.fr/中国/20151230-法媒联署谴责北京以莫须有罪名驱逐高洁
港大校友關注組和港大學教師及職員會：對李國章出任港大校委會主席感到極度憤怒 (HKU alumni concern group and staff association express intense anger towards Arthur Li's appointment as governing council chair)
InMedia HK, December 31, 2015
http://www.inmediahk.net/node/1039777
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Critics, allies line up as Arthur Li appointed Hong Kong University’s governing council chairman
South China Morning Post, December 31, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1896674/very-poor-choice-howls-protest-arthur-li
China's domestic violence law gets mixed reception
Voice of America, December 29, 2015
http://www.voanews.com/content/china-domestic-violence-law-mixed-reception/3123408.html
China Jails activist who supported Hong Kong's Democracy Movement
Radio Free Asia, December 29, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/activist-12292015110450.html
China says new restrictions to come on terrorism reporting
Associated Press, December 28, 2015
http://missoulian.com/news/world/asia/china-says-new-restrictions-to-come-on-terrorism-reporting/article_548606a3-0ebe-510d-8f16-329d361cc46a.html
China jails activist who supported Hong Kong's democracy movement
Radio Free Asia, December 29, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/activist-12292015110450.html
“念斌案”国家赔偿落定 获赔119万余元 (State compensation for “Nian Bin case” confirmed, paying $183,000)
Legal Daily, December 30, 2015
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/index_article/content/2015-12/30/content_6425575.htm
Innocent man who spent 11 years on death row gets compensation
China Daily, December 30, 2015
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015-12/30/content_22862326.htm
Official accused of taking $32m in bribes
China Daily, December 30, 2015
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015-12/30/content_22862826.htm
China's Xi tells top leaders to watch families amid graft fight
Reuters, December 29, 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-corruption-politics-idUSKBN0UD05W20151230
"King of judicial review” challenges Small House Policy as student protests airport fees
Hong Kong Free Press, December 29, 2015
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/12/29/king-of-judicial-review-challenges-small-house-policy-as-student-protests-airport-fees/
福田站兩地兩檢設施消失 (Facilities for separate checkpoints at Futian station disappeared)
Apple Daily, December 29, 2015
http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/news/art/20151229/19430581
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Futian Station opens on Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link
Hong Kong Free Press, December 30, 2015
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/12/30/futian-station-opens-on-guangzhou-shenzhen-hong-kong-express-rail-link/
中国反恐法为何西方不买账？ (Why isn’t the Western world buying China’s anti-terror law?)
Voice of America, December 30, 2015
http://www.voachinese.com/content/west-china-anti-terrorism-law-20151229/3123535.html
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中国依法反恐势在必行 (Implementing counterterrorism according to law is imperative)
Legal Daily, December 29, 2015
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/commentary/content/2015-12/29/content_6423984.htm
Attorney’s Conviction Shows Beijing’s Need for Social Control
The Wall Street Journal, December 30, 2015
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/12/30/attorneys-conviction-shows-beijings-need-for-social-control/
中国官媒对驱逐法国记者高洁表示赞同 (Chinese state media outlet expresses approval for expulsion of French journalist Gauthier)
Radio France Internationale, December 28, 2015
http://cn.rfi.fr/中国/20151228-中国官媒对政府驱逐法国记者高洁表示支持
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记者无国界指责北京当局并批评法国政府 (Reporters Without Borders denounces Beijing authorities and criticizes French government’s reaction)
Radio France Internationale, December 29, 2015
http://cn.rfi.fr/中国/20151229-记者无国界指责北京当局并批评法国政府 Exclusive Q&A: French reporter responds to China expulsion
Voice of America, December 28, 2015
http://www.voanews.com/content/exclusive-qa-french-reporter-responds-to-china-expulsion/3122582.html