Access to Justice (司法公正)

From chatroom to courtroom: China's #MeToo movement takes legal turn
Reuters, September 27, 2018
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/china-me-too-movement-sexual-harassment-10762588

Access to Information (信息公开)

《英烈保护法》亮剑网络“恶搞”，叶挺后人提起诉讼 (General’s descendants sue parody video producer for defamation under heroes and martyrs protection law)
The Paper, September 27, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2478896

Xi calls for building world-class new mainstream media
Xinhua English, September 26, 2018
http://english.sina.com/china/p/2018-09-26/detail-ihkmwytp2626651.shtml

China makes teachers, medical professionals pledge not to follow any religion
Radio Free Asia, September 26, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/religion-09262018110746.html

《江湖儿女》负能量？贾樟柯回应！胡锡进再回应贾：见不得真话乃负能量 胡：所有探索都是正能量 (Director Jia Zhangke responds to Global Times’ “negative energy” criticism of his new film )
M Time, September 26, 2018
http://news.mtime.com/2018/09/26/1584580.html

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

Liu Xia, widow of Nobel winner Liu Xiaobo, arrives in New York for human rights events
South China Morning Post, September 26, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2165791/liu-xia-widow-nobel-winner-liu-xiaobo-arrives-new-york-human

Related:
廖亦武偕劉霞抵紐約　出席人權獎頒獎活動 (Liu Xia attends “Power of the Powerless in China” human rights event in New York)
Ming Pao, September 26, 2018
https://news.mingpao.com/ins/instantnews/web_tc/article/20180926/s00004/1537945730258

Family fears UAE will deport Uyghur to China
Al Jazeera, September 26, 2018
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/09/family-fears-uae-deport-uighur-china-180926052039581.html

Pope calls on Chinese Catholics to offer criticism to build fairer society
Telegraph, September 26, 2018
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/26/pope-calls-chinese-catholics-offer-criticism-build-fairer-society/

Related:
Outspoken Hong Kong cardinal warns Vatican will “abandon” Taiwan after China deal
Hong Kong Free Press, September 27, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/09/27/outspoken-hong-kong-cardinal-warns-vatican-will-abandon-taiwan/

Beijing charges shuttered church $170,000 after eviction
Voice of America, September 26, 2018
https://www.voanews.com/a/beijing-charges-shuttered-church-after-eviction/4588668.html

Government Accountability (政府问责)

China sends ex-colleagues of former internet tsar Lu Wei to “education sessions”
South China Morning Post, September 26, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2165875/china-sends-ex-colleagues-former-internet-tsar-lu-wei-education

Chinese embassy rejects “apology” from Swedish comedy show for “racist” tourist skit
Hong Kong Free Press, September 26, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/09/26/chinese-embassy-rejects-apology-swedish-comedy-show-racist-tourist-skit/

政治标准师德师风为长江学者首要条件 违反政治纪律违反师德强制退出 (New regulations on “Changjiang Scholars Program” to screen scholars by political standards, violators to be disqualified)
Legal Daily, September 25, 2018
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/index_article/content/2018-09/25/content_7652657.htm?node=5955

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

谷歌证实“蜻蜓计划”存在
Google confirms “Project Dragonfly” for China
Financial Times, September 27, 2018
CH: http://www.ftchinese.com/story/001079582?full=y
EN: https://www.ft.com/content/1f93f17a-c1b2-11e8-95b1-d36dfef1b89a

Related:
Ex-Google employee urges lawmakers to take on company
The New York Times, September 26, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/technology/google-privacy-china-congress.html

Congress challenges Google on China; Google falls short
Wired, September 26, 2018
https://www.wired.com/story/congress-google-project-dragonfly-questions/

National Security & Counterterrorism (国家安全和反恐)

副外長回應疆「再教育營」：挽救被洗腦者 (Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs says re-education “rescues” those brainwashed by extremism)
Ming Pao, September 27, 2018
https://news.mingpao.com/pns/dailynews/web_tc/article/20180927/s00013/1537986448692

Hong Kong (香港)

National security law looms over Hong Kong freedoms
Agence France-Presse, September 27, 2018
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/national-security-law-looms-over-hong-kong-freedoms-10762664

Students who associate with outlawed Hong Kong National Party can face criminal sanctions, government tells schools as top Beijing official welcomes ban
South China Morning Post, September 26, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2165839/national-party-ban-essential-and-legally-sound-says-chinas

Related:
【民族黨禁運作】教局去信全港中學校監　籲防非法社團滲入 (Education Bureau warns primary, secondary schools against “infiltration” by illegal pro-independence associations with “wrong and misled” ideologies)
Ming Pao, September 26, 2018
https://news.mingpao.com/ins/instantnews/web_tc/article/20180926/s00001/1537955068647

封殺「香港民族黨」的社團條例，原先為誰而立？(The law by which National Party is banned: Who was the Societies Ordinance intended to target?)
The Initium, September 26, 2018
https://theinitium.com/article/20180926-notes-societies-ordinance-hk/

U.S. presses Hong Kong on freedoms after party ban
Agence France-Presse, September 25, 2018
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-presses-hong-kong-freedoms-party-ban-135532450.html

公司姓党：逾百间在港上市公司设党委 凌驾股东利益 (123 China-affiliated companies listed in Hong Kong have set up CPC committees, upholding Party’s interest over shareholders’ in event of conflict)
Radio France Internationale, September 26, 2018
http://cn.rfi.fr/港澳台/20180926-公司姓党逾百间在港上市公司设党委-凌驾股东利益

Commentary (评论)

【張超雄議員專訪】香港罕見病患者面對的困境 (The difficulties faced by patients suffering rare diseases in Hong Kong)
The Stand News, September 27, 2018
https://thestandnews.com/cosmos/張超雄議員專訪-香港罕見病患者面對的困境-一/

“雨伞运动”四周年：反思转化行动　中国阴影下香港未来的迷茫 (4th anniversary of Umbrella Movement: Reflection on attempts of transformation, Hong Kong’s future uncertain in China’s shadow)
BBC News, September 27, 2018
https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-45648699

Beijing needs to show better understanding of churches after deal
South China Morning Post, September 26, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/asia/article/2165867/beijing-needs-show-better-understanding-churches-after

Vatican agreement with China legitimizes a Christian-torturing regime
The Federalist, September 26, 2018
https://thefederalist.com/2018/09/26/vatican-agreement-china-legitimizes-christian-torturing-regime/

My #MeToo encounters in China started as a young girl—and only got worse from there
Quartz, September 26, 2018
https://qz.com/1398176

Access to Justice (司法公正)

Young Uyghur woman dies in detention in Xinjiang political “re-education camp”
Radio Free Asia, September 25, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/death-09252018174834.html

Xinjiang authorities detain almost every family member of late Uyghur Muslim scholar
Radio Free Asia, September 25, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/scholar-09252018145144.html

Access to Information (信息公开)

New Party rules to govern members’ online behavior
SupChina, September 25, 2018
https://supchina.com/2018/09/25/new-party-rules-to-govern-members-online-behavior/

Related:
Translation: China’s new top Internet official lays out agenda for Party control online
DigiChina, September 24, 2018
https://www.newamerica.org/cybersecurity-initiative/digichina/blog/translation-chinas-new-top-internet-official-lays-out-agenda-for-party-control-online/

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

“China's big mistake”: Pakistanis lobby to free wives trapped in Xinjiang
Reuters, September 25, 2018
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang-pakistan/chinas-big-mistake-pakistanis-lobby-to-free-wives-trapped-in-xinjiang-idUSKCN1M51R7

中秋专访：被囚维权人士家属倍思亲 (Mid-autumn interview: Families of persecuted rights defenders remember their loved ones)
Radio Free Asia, September 24, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/gf1-09242018094105.html

Government Accountability (政府问责)

台湾寺庙被占 改作中共教育基地 (Buddhist temple in Taiwan turned into Chinese Communist education center)
Radio Free Asia, September 24, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/gangtai/hx-09242018094353.html

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

“Do not fear AI,” Hong Kong scientists say as they champion local branch of Beijing’s Institute of Automation
South China Morning Post, September 26, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2164550/do-not-fear-ai-hong-kong-scientists-say-they-champion-local

China splits the Internet while the U.S. dithers
TechCrunch, September 24, 2018
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/24/china-splits-the-internet-while-the-u-s-dithers/

Google suppresses memo revealing plans to closely track search users in China
The Intercept, September 22, 2018
https://theintercept.com/2018/09/21/google-suppresses-memo-revealing-plans-to-closely-track-search-users-in-china/

National Security & Counterterrorism (国家安全和反恐)

Chinese national arrested for “spying on U.S. engineers”
BBC News, September 26, 2018
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45647560

U.S. intel chief warns China perfecting “surveillance state”
Voice of America, September 25, 2018
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-intel-chief-warns-china-is-perfecting-surveillance-state-/4587133.html

Hong Kong (香港)

Beijing renews call for Hong Kong to pass national security law after pro-independence party ban
South China Morning Post, September 26, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2165731/beijing-renews-call-hong-kong-pass-national-security-law

Hong Kong bans pro-independence party
China Digital Times, September 25, 2018
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2018/09/hong-kong-bans-pro-independence-party-for-national-security/

Related:
China defends ban on Hong Kong pro-independence party, hits back at criticism
Hong Kong Free Press, September 26, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/09/26/china-defends-ban-hong-kong-pro-independence-party-hits-back-criticism/

民族黨被禁同日　「香港共產黨」稱函保安局長知會成立　「不排除武力起義」(“Hong Kong Communist Party” established the same day as pro-independence party ban, advocating “Xi and Mao communism” in Hong Kong)
Ming Pao, September 25, 2018
https://news.mingpao.com/ins/instantnews/web_tc/article/20180925/s00001/1537832374974

Commentary (评论)

Lü Pin: “MeToo”: From butterflies to hurricanes
Chinese Feminist Collective, September 24, 2018
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2018/09/lu-pin-metoo-from-butterflies-to-hurricanes/

Turning a blind eye: Why are Muslim governments around the world keeping silent about China’s human rights violations against the Uyghurs?
Hoover Institute, September 25, 2018
https://www.hoover.org/research/turning-blind-eye-why-are-muslim-governments-around-world-keeping-silent-about-chinas-human

走进孔子学院：美方院长谈发展与争议 (On the development and controversy of Confucius Institutes: A talk with an American headmaster)
Voice of America, September 25, 2018
https://www.voachinese.com/a/studies-in-usa-china-confucius-institute-fate/4580014.html

China fills a Trump-sized vacuum at the UN
Politico, September 24, 2018
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/24/china-trump-united-nations-220529

Access to Justice (司法公正)

Meet the 8 Chinese judges who’ll sit on belt and road cases
South China Morning Post, September 25, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/2165567/meet-8-chinese-judges-wholl-sit-belt-and-road-cases

Uyghur former Xinjiang University vice president detained for “two-faced” tendencies
Radio Free Asia, September 24, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/professor-09242018164800.html

Access to Information (信息公开)

Minitrue: Do not report hotelier’s death by torture
China Digital Times, September 24, 2018
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2018/09/minitrue-do-not-report-hong-kong-hoteliers-death-by-torture/

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

四川阿坝藏僧示威被捕 (Three monks in Sichuan detained for protesting to demand a “Free Tibet”)
Radio Free Asia, September 24, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/shaoshuminzu/dz-09242018094451.html

Related:
Three Tibetan monks detained after launching solo protests in Ngaba
Radio Free Asia, September 24, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/detaining-09242018171452.html

Government Accountability (政府问责)

河北一厅官被控涉受贿两千余万，曾使用虚假身份偷越国境边境 (Former deputy CPC secretary in Xingtai, Hebei, charged with bribery of more than 20 million yuan)
The Paper, September 25, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2367240

China persisting with intellectual property theft in violation of international commitments: report
The Sydney Morning Herald, September 24, 2018
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/china-persisting-with-intellectual-property-theft-in-violation-of-international-commitments-report-20180924-p505lz.html