Access to Justice (司法公正)

Video: “This person will simply disappear”: Chinese secretive “reeducation camps” in spotlight at Kazakh trial
Hong Kong Free Press, July 17, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/07/17/person-will-simply-disappear-chinese-secretive-reeducation-camps-spotlight-kazakh-trial/

150项惩戒措施迫使280万“老赖”低头 (150 disciplinary measures to “subdue” 2.8 million defaulters: An interview with chief of Enforcement Bureau on “credit blacklist”)
Legal Daily, July 16, 2018
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/index_article/content/2018-07/16/content_7595039.htm?node=5954

Related:
诚信建设万里行｜公职人员成“老赖”，法院执行不手软 (Enforcement procedures broadcasted live as court cracks down on credit-defaulting prison guard)
The Paper, July 17, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2269962

衡水限制老赖子女就读私立学校，23人主动还款140余万 (23 credit defaulters pay up as their children face ban from private schools)
The Paper, July 16, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2268706

Access to Information (信息公开)

Authorities force Uyghur students to return to Xinjiang from mainland for propaganda drive
Radio Free Asia, July 16, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/students-07162018145903.html

Journalist, family, assistants under probe by China's new supervisory agency
Radio Free Asia, July 16, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/journalist-probe-07162018133910.html

Live from Beijing: a disappearing “Saturday Night Live”
The New York Times, July 17, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/world/asia/china-saturday-night-live.html

Related:
广电总局暑假亮剑：“把关”网络综艺 (Live shows taken down as State Administration tightens control over internet entertainment)
Radio Free Asia, July 16, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/meiti/yf1-07162018100302.html

China is escalating its war on variety shows, including Saturday Night Live
SupChina, July 16, 2018
https://supchina.com/2018/07/16/china-is-escalating-its-war-on-variety-shows-including-saturday-night-live

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

Uyghurs deplore China’s unkind cuts to local women’s skirts
Radio Free Asia, July 16, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/skirts-cut-07162018151636.html

湘潭2名环保志愿者调查洗砂场被打伤 打人者已被行拘 (Two environmental volunteers beaten while investigating sand washing plant, perpetrators detained)
Beijing News, July 17, 2018
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2018/07/17/495504.html

Government Accountability (政府问责)

国务院扶贫办召开南疆四地州脱贫攻坚会 北京与受援地签署三年帮扶协议 (Beijing signs 3-year assistance agreement to combat poverty in Xinjiang)
Beijing News, July 16, 2018
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2018/07/16/495307.html

内蒙古经信委原副主任崔臣接受调查 曾任包钢集团董事长 (Former deputy director of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Economic and Information Technology Commission under investigation)
China Economic Net, July 17, 2017
http://district.ce.cn/newarea/sddy/201807/17/t20180717_29772573.shtml

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

China’s elite Tsinghua University is now screening visitors using facial recognition
South China Morning Post, July 17, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2155632/chinese-university-uses-facial-recognition-system-screen-visitors

监控升级：人脸识别系统能读出情绪和威胁性 (Surveillance upgrades: Facial recognition technology reads emotions, threats)
British Broadcasting Corporation, July 17, 2018
https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/world-44859007

整治自媒体“洗稿”、重点监管短视频平台……四部门启动“剑网2018”专项行动 (“Sword Net 2018”: Crackdown on copyright infringement on video streaming sites)
Beijing News, July 16, 2018
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2018/07/16/495276.html

Hong Kong (香港)

民族党被指违国家安全 李家超：考虑禁止运作 (Pro-independence Hong Kong National Party faces potential official ban on national security grounds)
Inmedia, July 17, 2018
https://www.inmediahk.net/node/1058367

Related:
Hong Kong may ban political party that seeks independence from China
The New York Times, July 17, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/world/asia/hong-kong-ban-independence-party.html

Hong Kong moves to impose unprecedented ban on separatist party
The Guardian, July 17, 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/17/hong-kong-moves-to-ban-citys-first-pro-independence-party

【巩固纪律部队票仓？】前保安局长黎栋国、前消防处长　任新民党顾问 (Former chief of Security Bureau joins New People’s Party as consultant)
The Stand News, July 16, 2018
https://thestandnews.com/politics/鞏固紀律部隊票倉-前保安局長黎棟國-前消防處處長-任新民黨顧問/

Commentary (评论)

习近平重新“霸屏”官媒，红墙内斗水深莫测 (Xi Jinping once again “dominates the screens” of official media as internal struggle deepens)
Voice of America, July 17, 2018
https://www.voachinese.com/a/xi-china-20180716/4485737.html

面对AI，劳动者需要数字新政 (With the rise of artificial intelligence, the labor market needs a new deal)
Financial Times, July 17, 2018
http://www.ftchinese.com/story/001078506?full=y

政府沒有能力保障香港的文化、權利與制度　引致獨思潮 (Government’s failure to protect Hong Kong’s culture, rights and system leads to calls for independence)
The Stand News, July 16, 2018
https://thestandnews.com/politics/政府沒有能力保障香港的文化-權利與制度引致獨思潮/

Access to Justice (司法公正)

China holds father, supporters of woman detained for inking president's image
Radio Free Asia, July 16, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/inking-07162018103924.html

Related:
【泼墨女孩】艺术家华涌助董建彪寻女　传国保半夜带走两人(Father of “Ink Woman” and dissident artist incommunicado, abduction suspected)
The Stand News, July 14, 2018
https://thestandnews.com/china/潑墨女孩-藝術家華湧助董建彪尋女-傳國保半夜帶走兩人/

Police interrupt YouTube live stream by father of “missing” Chinese woman who splashed ink on Xi Jinping photo
Hong Kong Free Press, July 14, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/07/14/police-interrupt-youtube-live-stream-father-missing-chinese-woman-splashed-ink-xi-jinping-photo

河北妇报称被村书记多次强奸　查案部门：她没有这个姿色(“She’s not pretty enough”: Hebei investigators call woman’s claims of rape by village officer fraudulent)
Ming Pao, July 15, 2018
https://news.mingpao.com/ins/instantnews/web_tc/article/20180715/s00004/1531639636532

上海维权人士丁德元“妨害公务罪案”将于2018年7月25日上午开庭 (Shanghai rights defender sued for “obstructing public duty”)
Chinese Human Rights Defenders, July 15, 2018
http://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2018/07/2018725.html

Liu Xia’s friends “planning meeting” with former German president Joachim Gauck about her brother’s case
South China Morning Post, July 14, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2155293/liu-xias-friends-planning-meeting-joachim-gauck-about

Access to Information (信息公开)

Chinese officials halt show on tainted water
Agence France-Presse, July 14, 2018
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/chinese-officials-halt-show-on-tainted-water/article24421451.ece

A platform for female factory workers has disappeared from China’s Twitter
Quartz, July 16, 2018
https://qz.com/1328627/a-chinese-platform-for-female-factory-workers-rights-has-been-blocked-on-weibo/

上海网信办责令“好奇心日报”停止互联网新闻信息服务 (Shanghai authorities suspend "Curious Daily" news platform)
Beijing News, July 13, 2018
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2018/07/13/495020.html

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

被中国判重刑的民运人士秦永敏获“刘晓波良知奖” (Qin Yongmin granted “Liu Xiaobo conscience award”)
Voice of America, July 15, 2018
https://www.voachinese.com/a/qin-yong-min-get-award-20180715/4483337.html

China stifles memorials of Nobel laureate dissident Liu Xiaobo
Channel NewsAsia, July 14, 2018
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/china-stifles-memorials-of-nobel-laureate-dissident-liu-xiaobo-10527114

Related:
Hong Kong activists mark one year since Liu Xiaobo death
Channel NewsAsia, July 14, 2018
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/hong-kong-activists-mark-one-year-since-liu-xiaobo-death--10529092

A Berlin gathering for China’s Liu Xiaobo is a reminder of two very different 1989s
Quartz, July 14, 2018
https://qz.com/1328219/a-berlin-gathering-for-chinas-liu-xiaobo-is-a-reminder-of-two-very-different-1989s/

“We’re scared, very scared” – Muslims in China’s “Little Mecca” fear eradication of Islam
Agence France-Presse, July 16, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/07/16/scared-scared-muslims-chinas-little-mecca-fear-eradication-islam/

青海玉树藏人阻止开矿 遭警方用带毒气催泪弹镇压 (Police use tear gas to suppress Tibetan protest against mining)
Radio Free Asia, July 13, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/shaoshuminzu/dz-07132018101358.html

Government Accountability (政府问责)

地方官企业环保造假五大“花招”揭秘 (Xinhua on how Central Inspectorate uncovered five ways local authorities, companies fake environmental data)
Radio Free Asia, July 13, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/huanjing/hj-07132018151223.html

天津市委对8名市管干部不作为不担当问题严肃问责 (Eight Tianjin Party officials sanctioned for dereliction of duty)
The Paper, July 16, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2266389

江苏一行使公权力人员微信收受索要“感谢费”617次 (Jiangsu official prosecuted for accepting, soliciting 617 WeChat “red packets”)
China News, July 15, 2018
http://www.chinanews.com/sh/2018/07-15/8567207.shtml

广东省政协原常委蔡宗泽接受纪律审查和监察调查 (Former member of standing committee of Guangdong provincial political consultative conference under investigation for serious disciplinary and legal violations)
People's Daily, July 16, 2018
http://politics.people.com.cn/n1/2018/0716/c1001-30150680.html

兰州市原市长栾克军受贿案将于7月19日开庭 (Public trial of former mayor of Lanzhou who accepted bribes scheduled for July 19)
Beijing News, July 16, 2018
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2018/07/16/495339.html

广西柳州市原体育局局长涉嫌受贿受审 该系统多人被查 (Former director of municipal sports bureau of Liuzhou, Guangxi goes on trial for accepting bribes)
China News Service, July 16, 2018
http://www.chinanews.com/sh/2018/07-16/8568771.shtml

陕西一新城管委会原主任被控受贿两千万受审，曾被指雁过拔毛 (Former director of Shaanxi new city management committee tried for accepting bribes of 20 million)
The Paper, July 16, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2267648

甘肃武威市委原书记火荣贵涉严重违纪违法被查 (Former municipal Party committee secretary in Gansu under investigation for serious disciplinary and legal violations)
People's Daily, July 13, 2018
http://politics.people.com.cn/n1/2018/0713/c1001-30145974.html

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

Looking through the eyes of China’s surveillance state
The New York Times, July 16, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/technology/china-surveillance-state.html

涉倒卖公民信息案 数据堂曾0.2元/条买病例 (Twenty cents for a medical history record: China’s biggest market data provider caught in privacy infringement scandal, pending judgment)
Beijing News, July 16, 2018
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/finance/2018/07/16/495221.html

美专家担忧：中国数字丝绸之路或成为情报搜集网 (U.S. experts raise concern over digital Belt and Road becoming intelligence gathering network)
Voice of America, July 14, 2018
https://www.voachinese.com/a/china-overseas-projects-surveillance-concerns-20180712/4482464.html

Chinese mobile phone cameras are not-so-secretly recording users’ activities
Hong Kong Free Press, July 14, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/07/14/chinese-mobile-phone-cameras-not-secretly-recording-users-activities

Hong Kong (香港)

Hong Kong court will hear application to temporarily ban controversial checkpoint plan before cross-border rail link opens
South China Morning Post, July 16, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2155526/hong-kong-court-will-hear-application-temporarily-ban

Related:
Activists seek injunction to suspend controversial joint checkpoint arrangement until all legal challenges concluded
Hong Kong Free Press, July 16, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/07/16/activists-seek-injunction-suspend-controversial-joint-checkpoint-arrangement-legal-challenges-concluded/

中联办护法：凡基本法没规定的宪法都自动适用香港 (Liaison office: Chinese constitution automatically applies wherever Basic Law fails to specify)
Radio France Internationale, July 15, 2018
http://cn.rfi.fr/中国/20180715-中联办护法凡基本法没规定的宪法都自动适用香港

Related:
Veteran politician says Beijing office chief should “shut up,” after stating Chinese constitution can apply in Hong Kong
Hong Kong Free Press, July 16, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/07/16/veteran-politician-says-beijing-office-chief-shut-stating-chinese-constitution-can-apply-hong-kong/

Liaison office legal chief tells Hong Kong: Basic Law is not your constitution
South China Morning Post, July 15, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2155297/liaison-office-legal-chief-tells-hong-kong-basic-law-not

《聂德权专访》：立法会复会后提交国歌法本地立法(Chief of Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau: National Anthem Bill will reach LegCo after October)
Radio Television Hong Kong, July 16, 2018
http://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1407166-20180716.htm

Hong Kong's Snowden refugees, facing deportation, hope of new life in Canada
The Guardian, July 16, 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/16/hong-kongs-snowden-refugees-facing-deportation-hope-of-new-life-in-canada

获覆投诉结果为「无法证实」及「虚假」　黄之锋斥惩教署「匪夷所思」 (Joshua Wong finds rejection of his complaints over mistreatment in prison as “unprovable” and “fake” incredible)
Ming Pao, July 14, 2018
https://news.mingpao.com/ins/instantnews/web_tc/article/20180714/s00001/1531546771778

文汇报前副总程翔出书《香港六七暴动始末》以免历史被歪曲 (Former deputy chief editor of Wen Wei Po publishes book on Hong Kong 1967 Leftist Riots to prevent history from being distorted)
Radio France Internationale, July 16, 2018
http://cn.rfi.fr/中国/20180716-文汇报前副总程翔出书香港六七暴动始末以免历史被歪曲

英保守党人权分子疑因关注香港他和母亲收到寄自香港恐吓信 (Vice chairman of British Conservative Party Human Rights Committee suspects threats to him are related to his concern for Hong Kong)
Radio France Internationale, July 14, 2018
http://cn.rfi.fr/港澳台/20180714-英保守党人权分子疑因关注香港他和母亲收到寄自香港恐吓信

Commentary (评论)

Justice in Hong Kong is not seen to be done… but blaming the critics will not solve the problem
Hong Kong Free Press, July 15, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/07/15/justice-hong-kong-not-seen-done-blaming-critics-will-not-solve-problem

Access to Justice (司法公正)

Poet Liu Xia escaped China, but will Beijing ever set her free?
The Washington Post, July 13, 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/07/13/poet-liu-xia-escaped-china-but-will-beijing-ever-set-her-free/

Related:
Liu Xia stays home “to protect brother” on anniversary of husband's death
刘霞不参与公众悼念活动　独留与亡夫心灵对话
Radio Free Asia, July 13, 2018
EN: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/protect-07132018111153.html
CH: https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/liu-07132018090931.html?encoding=simplified

【709大抓捕】失聯三年傳好消息　李文足：律師見到王全璋身體精神正常 (Wang Quanzhang is alive and well, wife confirms via Twitter)
Ming Pao, July 13, 2018
https://news.mingpao.com/ins/instantnews/web_tc/article/20180713/s00004/1531446285182

男子编造恐怖信息获刑：谎称身绑4个煤气罐找不到妻子就引爆(Man convicted for fabricating and spreading “terrorist message”)
Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court WeChat, July 13, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2262970

央行：任何单位和个人不得以格式条款、通知等方式拒收现金(China central bank forbids businesses or individuals from refusing cash payment)
Bank of China official website, July 11, 2018
https://3w.huanqiu.com/a/addcd8/7EvpI7tjsju?agt=8

Access to Information (信息公开)

民航局通报外航网站涉港澳台信息整改情况：38家已完成整改(China Civil Aviation Administration confirms 38 airlines have complied with website change on Taiwan, 6 did not)
The Paper, July 13, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2261297

“借古讽今”？新华网转文华国锋三项违纪搞个人崇拜 文章被封 (Xinhua repost of Study Times article criticizing ex-Party leader for cult of personality blocked)
Radio Free Asia, July 12, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/zhengzhi/ql1-07122018102402.html

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

With 9,000 bottles of dirty “Spring Water,” a Chinese artist gets results
The New York Times, July 13, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/world/asia/china-water-pollution-brother-nut.html

潑墨女孩下落不明　公安建議造假病歷爭輕判　父：我女兒無病也無罪!(Father of “Ink woman” arrives in Shanghai, demands her release)
The Stand News, July 13, 2018
https://www.thestandnews.com/china/潑墨女孩下落不明-公安建議造假病歷爭輕判-父-我女兒無病也無罪/

泼墨事件后 北京东莞急撤领导人户外照片(Chinese cities order removal of outdoor displays of Party leader portraits)
Radio Free Asia, July 13, 2018 https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/zhengzhi/ql1-07132018101447.html

Related:
港媒报道北京紧急下令撤习近平画像 (Beijing hastily removes Xi Jinping portraits as inking spreads)
Radio France Internationale, July 13, 2018
http://cn.rfi.fr/中国/20180713-港媒报道北京紧急下令撤习近平画像

被捕1000天 桂民海亲朋要求中国当局将其释放(Gui Minhai’s family and friends demand his release on his 1000th day of detention)
Radio France Internationale, July 13, 2018
http://cn.rfi.fr/中国/20180713-被捕1000天-桂民海亲朋要求中国当局将其释放

Government Accountability (政府问责)

“保护假”能否真正保护女性劳动权益 (Female job applicants are forced to declare “I will not take any days off” on resume)
Legal Daily, July 13, 2018
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/index_article/content/2018-07/13/content_7593074.htm?node=53628

安徽省司法厅原副厅长程瀚一审获刑17年零6个月(Former Vice Chief of Anhui Justice Bureau convicted to 17 years and 6 months on corruption charges)
China News, July 13, 2018
http://www.chinanews.com/sh/2018/07-13/8566405.shtml

五粮液：宜宾市国资公司董事长张辉正接受纪律审查和监察调查(Board Chairman of Yibin State-owned Assets Management Company is under disciplinary and criminal investigation)
The Paper, July 13, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2262212

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

四部门：最高法与民航局铁总实现老赖信息共享(Supreme People’s Court to share defaulters’ information with Civil Aviation Administration and National Railway Administration)
China News, July 13, 2018
https://3w.huanqiu.com/a/4e2d56fd65b095fb7f51/7Ev6z3iz8ac?agt=8

民航局详解335名民航失信人：236人带违禁品被限乘一年(China Civil Aviation Administration releases detailed categories of “people who lost trust” in civil aviation)
The Paper, July 13, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2261282

Hong Kong (香港)

Hundreds gather at candlelight vigil for Liu Xiaobo in Hong Kong as China takes dissident’s supporters “on vacation” to stop them commemorating Nobel Peace Prize winner
South China Morning Post, July 13, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2155237/hundreds-gather-candlelight-vigil-liu-xiaobo-hong-kong-china

Related:
【劉曉波逝世一周年】內地人專程來港出席追思會　望更多人為民主自由挺身(Mainlanders attend Liu Xiaobo vigil in Hong Kong)
The Stand News, July 13, 2018
https://thestandnews.com/politics/劉曉波逝世一周年-內地人專程來港出席追思會-望更多人為民主自由挺身/

President of Hong Kong legislature easily survives vote of no confidence
South China Morning Post, July 13, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2155054/president-hong-kong-legislature-easily-survives-vote-no

Threatening letters sent from Hong Kong make British human rights activist “more determined” to speak up for city
South China Morning Post, July 13, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2155147/threatening-letters-sent-hong-kong-make-british-human-rights

香港团体中联办抗议秦永敏被重判13年 (Activist groups protest against Qin Yongmin’s harsh sentence outside Liaison Office )
Radio Free Asia, July 12, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/gangtai/cp-07122018103119.html

律政司申重審梁天琦等三人暴動罪　高院准與「美國隊長」案合併 (Department of Justice applies for retrial of Edward Leung’s rioting conviction)
The Stand News, July 12, 2018
https://thestandnews.com/politics/律政司申重審梁天琦等三人暴動罪-高院准與-美國隊長-案合併/