Access to Justice (司法公正)

中国人权律师江天勇被判监禁两年 (Chinese human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong sentenced to 2 years in prison)
Voice of America, November 21, 2017
https://www.voachinese.com/a/china-rights-lawyer-jiang-tianyong-sentenced-20171120/4127915.html

Related:
“Influenced by anti-China forces”: Rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong jailed for 2 years as crackdown intensifies
Agence France-Presse, November 21, 2017
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/11/21/influenced-anti-china-forces-rights-lawyer-jiang-tianyong-jailed-2-years-crackdown-intensifies/

高智晟失踪百日 陕西佳县刑警队称被国保羁押 (Gao Zhisheng confirmed by Shaanxi police to be detained by state security agents after missing for 100 days)
Radio Free Asia, November 20, 2017
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/ql2-11202017104210.html#.WhOKl74PP_E.twitter

打压维权律师搞株连 儿子护照被废申诉拒受理 (Supreme People's Procuratorate rejects rights lawyer’s complaint of son being banned from leaving China)
Radio Free Asia, November 20, 2017
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/gf1-11202017104521.html

法治课｜拒绝律师“突袭”辩护，江西赣州中院此举是否妥当 (Is it appropriate for Ganzhou Intermediate Court in Jiangxi to ban lawyer from performing “surprise defense” duty?)
The Paper, November 20, 2017
http://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1870719

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

数百访民北京游行受阻 多人被控制 (Hundreds of petitioners in Beijing banned from protesting, many put under police custody)
Radio Free Asia, November 20, 2017
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/yf2-11202017104356.html

Government Accountability (政府问责)

As wage arrears escalate in the run up to the Lunar New Year, the trade union needs to act
China Labor Bulletin, November 21, 2017
http://www.clb.org.hk/content/wage-arrears-escalate-run-lunar-new-year-trade-union-needs-act

湖南省桃江縣有中學集體肺癆 多名官員及校長遭革職 (Officials and head of school removed from duty after cluster TB outbreak in rural Hunan)
Radio Television Hong Kong, November 21, 2017
http://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1365975-20171121.htm

Related:
Officials sacked for tuberculosis outbreaks in Central China
Xinhua News Agency, November 21, 2017
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2017-11/21/content_34808821.htm

China punishes 6,190 officials in anti-graft campaign
Xinhua News Agency, November 21, 2017
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-11/21/c_136766895.htm

北京大兴火灾已致19死8伤 警方刑拘18人 (Police criminally detains 18 people after Beijing outskirt flame claimed 19 lives and injured 8)
People’s Daily, November 20, 2017
http://bit.ly/2hI0o5K

Related:
Another tragedy unfolds in Beijing’s migrant worker shanty towns
China Labor Bulletin, November 20, 2017
http://www.clb.org.hk/content/another-tragedy-unfolds-beijing%E2%80%99s-migrant-worker-shanty-towns

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

公安部提醒：身份证将迎来巨变！影响每个人 (Ministry of Public Security: revolutionary change in ID card will affect everyone)
China Central Television, November 20, 2017
http://bit.ly/2B9c2yG

我国治理安卓应用市场秩序 阻断违法有害移动应用进入市场 (Chinese authorities tighten control of Android apps to “prevent illegal and harmful mobile apps from entering market”)
Xinhua News Agency, November 20, 2017
http://news.xinhuanet.com/local/2017-11/20/c_1121984506.htm

Hong Kong (香港)

周永康黃之鋒羅冠聰等就在囚人士待遇權利向懲教署投訴 (Alex Chow, Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and others file complaint against Hong Kong Correctional Services for better treatment of inmates and protection of their rights)
Radio Television Hong Kong, November 21, 2017
http://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1366008-20171121.htm

林鄭月娥：中央文獻研究室主任冷溶來港解釋十九大內容 (Carrie Lam confirms Beijing official will come to Hong Kong to chair seminar on 19th party congress)
Radio Television Hong Kong, November 21, 2017
http://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1365960-20171121.htm

Related:
Beijing official to hold seminar on Communist Party Congress for senior Hong Kong civil servants
Hong Kong Free Press, November 21, 2017
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/11/21/beijing-official-hold-seminar-communist-party-congress-senior-hong-kong-civil-servants/

聯署要求政府立即公開高鐵西九「一地兩檢」《合作安排》全文 (Lawmakers start signature campaign demanding SAR government to reveal details of co-location deal with mainland)
Inmediahik, November 20, 2017
https://www.inmediahk.net/node/1053429

Related:
Meaningless for Hong Kong gov’t to submit bills to legislature if filibustering continues, says Chief Exec. Carrie Lam
Hong Kong Free Press, November 21, 2017
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/11/21/meaningless-hong-kong-govt-submit-bills-legislature-filibustering-continues-says-chief-exec-carrie-lam/

Commentary (评论)

花崗岩的啟示 (Granite’s revelation)
Mingpao, November 21, 2017
https://news.mingpao.com/ins/instantnews/web_tc/article/20171121/s00022/1511180284622

不畏威權 繼續燃燒——致我的社民連黨友 (Don’t be afraid of Authoritarianism and keep on going - to my fellow League of Social Democrats)
Inmediahk, November 21, 2017
https://www.inmediahk.net/node/1053435

Carrie Lam between a rock and hard place
South China Morning Post, November 21, 2017
http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2120773/carrie-lam-between-rock-and-hard-place

Access to Justice (司法公正)

刘霞已做子宫肌瘤手术抑郁症严重 外界吁尽早允其出国 (Liu Xia undergoes uterine fibroids surgery and is severely depressed; Hu Jia urges China to allow her to go abroad)
Radio Free Asia, November 19, 2017
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/yf-11192017115903.html

Related:
Friends fear for well-being of Nobel laureate’s widow Liu Xia; urge China to let her leave country
Hong Kong Free Press, November 20, 2017
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/11/20/friends-fear-well-nobel-laureates-widow-liu-xia-urge-china-let-leave-country/

黎雄兵：卢廷阁律师在法院开庭遭法警殴打入院救治 (Lawyer Lu Tingge beaten by police at Sichuan court and hospitalized)
Weiquanwang, November 17, 2017
http://wqw2010.blogspot.hk/2017/11/blog-post_43.html

推进落实以审判为中心的诉讼制度改革 安徽启动第三方评价庭审活动 (Anhui province launches third-party review of trials to promote trial-centered system reform)
Supreme People’s Court, November 17, 2017
http://www.court.gov.cn/zixun-xiangqing-69122.html

第七届中美司法与人权研讨会在纽约举行 (7th Sino-US judicial and human rights seminar kicks off in New York)
Xinhua News Agency, November 16, 2017
http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2017-11/16/c_1121968151.htm

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

內地官方對女性平權運動沒放鬆 組織者轉地下工作 (Feminist activists forced to work covertly as pressure from mainland authorities continues)
Radio Television Hong Kong, November 20, 2017
http://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1365741-20171120.htm

上海公民今年第21次上街举牌要求批准《公民权利和政治权利国际公约》和要求官员公开财产 (Citizens in Shanghai hold placards on street demanding signing of ICCPR and declaring of officials’ assets)
Weiquanwang, November 18, 2017
http://wqw2010.blogspot.hk/2017/11/21.html

Government Accountability (政府问责)

湖南桃江四中发生结核病聚集性疫情 纪委介入调查失职渎职情况 (Commission for Discipline Inspection launches investigation into TB cluster outbreak at Hunan secondary school)
China Central Television, November 20, 2017
http://m.news.cctv.com/2017/11/20/ARTIQp6LYk7b7u0kY5XZZrWz171120.shtml

Related:
湖南肺结核事件校长：未刻意隐瞒疫情，没说过“不死人不放假” (Head of Hunan secondary school denies allegation of concealing TB outbreak)
Beijing News, November 19, 2017
http://bit.ly/2B3jEmm

新疆实行15年免费教育 (Xinjiang now provides 15 years of free education to schoolers)
People’s Daily, November 20, 2017
http://paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/html/2017-11/20/nw.D110000renmrb_20171120_8-01.htm

因祁连山生态破坏问题 16人被批捕 (Gansu province arrests 16 for ecological damages in Qilian Mountain)
People.com, November 20, 2017
http://politics.people.com.cn/n1/2017/1120/c1001-29656980.html

China's Chongqing renews attacks on former disgraced leaders
Reuters, November 20, 2017
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-politics-corruption/chinas-chongqing-renews-attacks-on-former-disgraced-leaders-idUSKBN1DK06Q

12部委将对农民工工资支付情况开展专项检查 确保投诉“有门” (12 ministries and departments launch campaign to ensure migrant workers get paid and have access to filing complaints)
Legal Daily, November 17, 2017
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/index_article/content/2017-11/17/content_7390315.htm?node=5955

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

China military sets up website to report leaks, fake news
Reuters, November 19, 2017
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/china-military-sets-up-website-to-report-leaks--fake-news-9420286

Hong Kong (香港)

Dead end for Hong Kong democracy, so focus on social policies now, new Labor Party head says
South China Morning Post, November 20, 2017
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2120582/dead-end-hong-kong-democracy-so-focus-social-policies-now

梁家傑形容李飛如同宣旨 談23條是添煩添亂 (Alan Leong compares Li Fei’s speech to declaring imperial decree and says Li's mentioning of Article 23 creates more trouble)
Radio Television Hong Kong, November 19, 2017
http://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1365656-20171119.htm

Related:
Pro-Beijing heavyweight puts Article 23 national security law in manifesto for seat on China’s top legislature
Hong Kong Free Press, November 20, 2017
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/11/20/pro-beijing-heavyweight-puts-article-23-national-security-law-manifesto-seat-chinas-top-legislature/

粵港簽《合作安排》 陳帆：不存在隱瞞及逃避 (Secretary for Transport and Housing says there are no concealing and evasion in co-location deal with mainland)
Mingpao, November 19, 2017
https://news.mingpao.com/ins/instantnews/web_tc/article/20171119/s00001/1511064806891

Related:
一地兩檢今簽協議 細節不公開 消息稱待人大常委會確認 泛民批黑箱作業 (SAR government will not reveal details of co-location deal with mainland while waiting for NPC’s confirmation; pro-democracy camp criticizes it as blackbox operation)
Mingpao, November 18, 2017
https://news.mingpao.com/pns/dailynews/web_tc/article/20171118/s00002/1510941584176

團體遊行促落實全民退保 斥林鄭月娥及羅致光阻礙政策 (Groups march for universal retirement protection scheme and criticise Carrie Lam and Secretary for Labor and Welfare for hurdling)
Radio Free Hong Kong, November 19, 2017
http://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1365648-20171119.htm

蕩婦遊行反對父權社會性暴力 「我身體我話事」 (Around 80 join SlutWalk Hong Kong in protest against patriarchal society and sexual violence)
Inmediahk, November 19, 2017
https://www.inmediahk.net/node/1053395

Commentary (评论)

人權法下的國歌法 (National anthem law under human rights law)
Inmediahk, November 20, 2017
https://www.inmediahk.net/node/1053397a

Access to Justice (司法公正)

江西明经国案一审开庭，庭审焦点：是否因强拆而引发血案？ (Ming Jingguo, peasant who killed local official with hoe for eviction dispute, faces trial in Jiangxi)
The Paper, November 17, 2017
http://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1868369

详解新刑诉法以来宁夏首例“零口供”判死刑案，死刑已执行 (Suspect who gives no testimony executed: first death penalty in Ningxia since new Criminal Procedural Law takes effect)
Ningxia People’s Procuratorate, November 16, 2017
http://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1868041

Access to Information (信息公开)

China cyber watchdog rejects censorship critics, says Internet must be “orderly”
Voice of America, November 16, 2017
https://www.voanews.com/a/china-internet-freedom/4118187.html

维护学术自由　杨绍政教授向政权说不遭停课 (Defiant Professor Yang Shaozheng defends academic freedom but gets suspended by university)
Radio Free Asia, November 14
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/professor-11142017071055.html

Government Accountability (政府问责)

China’s propaganda chief warns against “seduction” of Western values
Reuters, November 17, 2017
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2120330/chinas-propaganda-chief-warns-against-seduction-western

How China’s new anti-graft super body will work, and why calling a lawyer won’t be an option
South China Morning Post, November 17, 2017
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2120175/how-chinas-new-anti-graft-super-body-will-work-and-why

Human rights in China under Xi Jinping “worst since Tiananmen crackdown”: Amnesty
Associated Press, November 17, 2017
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2120318/human-rights-china-under-xi-jinping-worst-tiananmen

Child abuse scandal at Ctrip daycare in Shanghai continues to make headlines, piss off parents
Shanghaiist, November 17, 2017
http://shanghaiist.com/2017/11/17/ctrip-child-abuse.php

China’s cadres should believe in the party, not “gods and ghosts”, if they want to be promoted
South China Morning Post, November 16, 2017
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2120217/chinas-cadres-should-believe-party-not-gods-and-ghosts

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

Chinese copycats of the world’s hottest videogame added “core socialist values”
Quartz, November 16, 2017
https://qz.com/1131079/chinese-copycats-of-video-game-playerunknowns-battlegrounds-pubg-adopted-xi-jinpings-core-socialist-values/

我们家中究竟潜伏了多少“小间谍”？——“黑入”智能家居设备盗卖个人隐私黑灰产业起底 (Investigation: Industry of hacking into smart house appliances and stealing personal information)
Xinhua News Agency, November 16, 2017
http://news.xinhuanet.com/finance/2017-11/16/c_1121963554.htm

Hong Kong (香港)

啟動「三步走」 港府明日中午與內地簽合作協議 (SAR government to sign co-location arrangement deal with mainland by midday tomorrow)
Mingpao, November 17, 2017
https://news.mingpao.com/ins/instantnews/web_tc/article/20171117/s00001/1510906560304

Poverty in Hong Kong hits record high, with 1 in 5 people considered poor
South China Morning Post, November 17, 2017
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/community/article/2120366/poverty-hong-kong-hits-7-year-high-one-five-people

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says Beijing committed to city’s semi-autonomy
South China Morning Post, November 17, 2017
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2120264/hong-kong-leader-carrie-lam-says-beijing-committed-citys

王振民批評香港有人頭腦像花崗岩 不承認香港回歸現實 (Wang Zhenmin, legal chief of Liaison Office, criticizes Hongkongers of having brains like “granite” and refusing to recognize fact that Hong Kong has retuned to China)
Radio Television Hong Kong, November 17, 2017
http://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1365385-20171117.htm

Related:
Don't live in the past, embrace the nation, Wang Zhenmin urges
The Standard, November 17, 2017
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news.php?id=99704&sid=

劉兆佳稱香港「只識享受一國兩制的權利」 李飛演講為23條「做鋪墊工作」 (Beijing advisor Lau Siu-kai says Hong Kong only knows of enjoying rights of “One Country, Two Systems”, and claims Li Fei’s speech paves way to enactment of Article 23)
Post852, November 17, 2017
http://bit.ly/2jzmeMQ

Related:
Beijing will take action if Hong Kong fails to enact national security law, mainland adviser warns
South China Morning Post, November 17, 2017
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2120319/beijing-will-take-action-if-hong-kong-fails-enact-national

不滿楊鳴章「違反社會常態」言論 明愛學生畢業禮包圍抗議 (Unhappy about Bishop of Hong Kong’s comment of “refusing to sing national anthem is against social norms”, students protest after graduation ceremony)
HK01, November 16, 2017
http://bit.ly/2zMkaY2

Related:
“Don’t silence me” – Hong Kong graduates protest free speech issues on campus
Hong Kong Free Press, November 16, 2017
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/11/16/video-dont-silence-hong-kong-graduates-protest-free-speech-issues-campus/

Commentary (评论)

續噓國歌和派港獨傳單說明什麼？ (Booing national anthem and handing out Hong Kong independence flyers, what do they imply?)
Mingpao, November 17, 2017
https://news.mingpao.com/ins/instantnews/web_tc/article/20171117/s00022/1510855520663

抗爭者的平常心 (Those who remain defiant should keep peace of mind)
Inmediahk, November 17, 2017
https://www.inmediahk.net/node/1053372

精英失言成风 社会走向衰败 (Hong Kong society in decline, as elites babbling nonsense becomes common practice)
Radio Free Asia, November 16, 2017
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/commentaries/tym/COM-11162017070510.html

China – a reluctant global power
The Diplomat, November 16, 2017
https://thediplomat.com/2017/11/china-a-reluctant-global-power/

Access to Justice (司法公正)

中国维权律师被逮捕 外界质疑蓄意报复 (Rights lawyer Li Yuhan formally arrested for “picking quarrels and provoking troubles”)
Voice of America, November 16, 2017
https://www.voachinese.com/a/chinese-rights-lawyer-arrested-20171116/4117731.html

哈萨克歌星兄长被捕 广播电台编辑被刑拘已半年 (Xinjiang arrests brother of Kazakh star singer and criminally detains radio news editor for 6 months who receives money from Kazakhstan relative)
Radio Free Asia, November 15, 2017
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/shaoshuminzu/ql2-11152017100809.html

刑满未自由 “广州三君子”之一袁新亭出狱后失联 (Guangzhou-based rights defender Yuan Xinting finishes prison term but remains incommunicado)
Radio Free Asia, November 15, 2017
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/yf2-11152017100915.html

880多万人次上最高法失信“黑名单” (Supreme People’s Court: over 8.8 million people blacklisted for poor credit)
Legal Daily, November 15, 2017
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/index_article/content/2017-11/15/content_7387752.htm?node=5954

Access to Information (信息公开)

China “worst abuser of Internet freedom” worldwide: Freedom House report
Radio Free Asia, November 15, 2017
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/internet-11152017132045.html