Hundreds of children of detained Uyghurs held in “closed school” in Kashgar prefecture
Radio Free Asia, November 8, 2018
Xinjiang: Life during a people's war on terror
The Diplomat, November 9, 2018
Friday, November 09, 2018
Xinjiang (新疆)
Access to Justice (司法公正)
Interpol says no option but to accept China's removal of its chief
The Guardian, November 8, 2018
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國際刑警：無權調查孟宏偉下落 只能鼓勵中國交代 (Interpol: no power to investigate Meng’s case, can only urge explanation from China)
The Stand News, November 9, 2018
Access to Information (信息公开)
Media, guests shut out of US-China cyber relations panel sessions at World Internet Conference in Wuzhen
South China Morning Post, November 9, 2018
Hong Kong art space Tai Kwun says it cannot become a political platform, after cancelling Ma Jian’s book events
Hong Kong Free Press, November 9, 2018
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馬建指無香港出版社願出《中國夢》 貝嶺：中文版明年台灣出版 (After refusal from all Hong Kong publishers, Ma Jian’s “China Dream” to be published in Taiwan next year)
The Stand News, November 9, 2018
Citizen Participation (公民参与)
Another Tibetan burns himself to death to protest Chinese rule
Voice of America, November 8, 2018
新修改的《中华全国妇女联合会章程》全文公布 (Xi Jinping Thought incorporated into amended constitution of All-China Women's Federation)
People’s Daily, November 9, 2018
Wife of detained Chinese rights lawyer stages protest, meets diplomats
Radio Free Asia, November 8, 2018
Police in China's Shenzhen Beat, Pepper Spray Protesting Silicosis Sufferers
Radio Free Asia, November 8, 2018
國際特赦組織發起全球一人一信行動 促港府撤回佔中九子控罪 (Amnesty International starts global petition to withdraw prosecution on 9 Umbrella Movement leaders
The Stand News, November 8, 2018
Government Accountability (政府问责)
福建泉州：化学品泄漏导致生态灾难 (Chemical leak in Fujian covered up by authorities, disastrous damage to ecology and fishermen hospitalized)
Radio Free Asia, November 8, 2018
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Chinese fishing village fears contamination cover-up after chemical leak
South China Morning Post, November 8, 2018
北京“砌砖”运动：保护历史还是夺去人们的生活？
Historic preservation or just ripping out a way of life in Beijing?
The New York Times, November 8, 2018
ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)
At China’s Internet Conference, a darker side of tech emerges
The New York Times, November 8, 2018
Hong Kong (香港)
British journalist Victor Mallet denied entry to Hong Kong as tourist
South China Morning Post, November 9, 2018
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FT亚洲新闻主编马凯被香港拒绝入境
Senior FT editor refused entry to Hong Kong
Financial Times, November 8, 2018馬凱遭拒入境 民主派強烈譴責 毛孟靜：港府已成北京傀儡 (Pan-dems condemn entry-ban on FT editor, criticize government as Beijing’s puppet)
Inmediahk.net, November 9, 2018馬凱被拒入境 李家超：不公開評論個別個案 (Security chief refuses to “comment on individual cases” as FT editor is denied visitor entry)
Radio Television Hong Kong, November 9, 2018
【封殺港獨】學生動源召集人元朗遇襲 成員家屬遭國安滋擾 (Leader of pro-independence student organization attacked on the way to school)
Apple Daily, November 9, 2018
Commentary (评论)
Some nations may already see Hong Kong as “just another Chinese city”
Bloomberg, November 9, 2018
观点：尘肺病工人的拷问与中国人权的生存权 (Commentary: Silicosis patients and China’s right to life human right)
BBC News, November 8, 2018
Sexual harassment in China’s male-dominated civil service accepted as the norm, observers say
South China Morning Post, November 8, 2018
Thursday, November 08, 2018
UPR of China（联合国对中国的普遍定期审议）
At U.N., China defends mass detention of Uighur Muslims
The New York Times, November 6, 2018
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Xinjiang camps scrutinized at U.N. rights review
China Digital Times, November 7, 2018China’s UPR: Will Concerns Raised over Ethnic and Religious Repression Lead to Accountability?
Human Rights in China, November 6, 2018
In a UN first, Hong Kong’s human rights situation singled out from China’s, with city’s global reputation at stake, 45 civil society groups say
South China Morning Post, November 7, 2018
“Disappearing HK freedoms now clear to the world”
RTHK, November 7, 2018
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郭家麒批評張建宗於聯合國發言偏離事實 匪夷所思 (Civic Party legislator criticizes Matthew Cheung's explanation at UPR as outrageous and deviating from facts)
Radio Television Hong Kong, November 7, 2018
Xinjiang (新疆)
“这不是我想的中国”：一个维吾尔女子的逃亡 | 独家 (Video: “This is not the China I thought” - the escape of a Uyghur woman)
Radio Free Asia, November 6, 2018
Access to Justice (司法公正)
专访：黄琦85岁母亲希望有生之时见儿子一面 (Interview with Huang Qi’s mother: “I want to see my son before I die”
Deutsche Welle, November 7, 2018
Access to Information (信息公开)
重庆2019年高考11月7日开始报名 政审不合格者不能参加 (Students in Chongqing may not take 2019 university entrance exam without passing “political exam”)
Caixin, November 8, 2018
中国版图成国家机密？中国一公民状告外交部遭拒 (China-Russian border details marked state secret as MFA denies historian’s request for info)
BBC News, November 7, 2018
许章润：先生有话哪里说？ (Xu Zhangrun censored on Chinese search engines after criticizing CPC)
Deutsche Welle, November 7, 2018
Chinese exiled writer Ma Jian says Tai Kwun art space cancelled his talks at Hong Kong International Literary Festival
Hong Kong Free Press, November 8, 2018
Citizen Participation (公民参与)
王全璋家属敦促多国大使出席庭审 (Wang Quanzhang’s family urges embassy representatives to attend trial)
Radio Free Asia, November 7, 2018
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穿「釋放全璋」上衣赴法院 李文足堅拒遮蔽據理力爭 (Li Wenzu ordered to cover up “Release Quanzhang” slogan on clothing at court)
The Stand News, November 8, 2018
塵肺病工人深圳索賠爆衝突 官方被指食言 毆打催淚彈驅散 (Shenzhen workers suffering pneumoconiosis demand compensation, protests meet violent teargas)
Ming Pao, November 8, 2018
Government Accountability (政府问责)
UN experts call for release of detained Chinese rights lawyers
Radio Free Asia, November 7, 2018
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Opinions adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention at its eighty-second session, 20–24 August 2018 — Opinion No. 62/2018 concerning Wang Quanzhang, Jiang Tianyong and Li Yuhan (China)
Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, October 12, 2018
未入中國賽區 台電競隊初賽後遭DQ 主辦方：採聯國國家清單 選手：曾兩度台灣身分參賽 (Taiwan sports team disqualified from SE Asia tournament for not joining “China” region, organizers claim they “follow UN’s list of countries”)
Ming Pao, November 8, 2018
ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)
China’s flagship tech event marked by Silicon Valley absences
Financial Times, November 7, 2018
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Xi sends congratulatory letter to 5th World Internet Conference
Sina English, November 7, 2018
Hong Kong (香港)
一項暴動罪今重審 梁天琦向支持者報以「韓式心心」 (Edward Leung attends re-trial of one count of rioting)
The Stand News, November 8, 2018
香港团体指国际关注香港人权状况恶化 (Hong Kong groups say international community is concerned with Hong Kong’s deteriorating human rights condition)
Voice of America, November 8, 2018
Chinese exiled writer Ma Jian says Tai Kwun art space cancelled his talks at Hong Kong International Literary Festival
Hong Kong Free Press, November 8, 2018
有還押人士稱懲教院所衛生惡劣 需穿舊鞋及沒全新內衣 (Concern group calls for awareness on sanitary conditions in Reception Centres for remanded detainees)
Radio Television Hong Kong, November 7, 2018
Commentary (评论)
China, Xinjiang and UN Human Rights Review November 7, 2018
Jerome Cohen, November 7, 2018
Civil society space changing, not shrinking: Report
ChinaFile, November 7, 2018
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Berthold Kuhn: Changing Spaces for Civil Society Organisations in China
Open Journal of Political Science, October 30, 2018
中国现代国际关系研究院李伟：联合国应主导协调网络反恐 (Chinese international relations scholar: UN should lead coordination on internet counterterrorism)
The Paper, November 8, 2018
Wednesday, November 07, 2018
UPR of China（联合国对中国的普遍定期审议）
West calls on China to close Uighur detention camps
Reuters, November 6, 2018
Related:
China’s UPR: Will Concerns Raised over Ethnic and Religious Repression Lead to Accountability?
Human Rights in China, November 6, 2018
China says UN criticism of human rights record is “politically driven”
The Guardian, November 6, 2018
China dismisses criticism about mass detentions at UN
Associated Press, November 7, 2018
聯合國審議中國人權 多國關注新疆再教育營 中方反斥偏離事實 (UN reviews China human rights, multiple states concerned over Xinjiang camps, China dismisses allegations as “lacking factual basis”)
The Stand News, November 7, 2018
多國關注港澳人權 張建宗：不必要、毫無根據、不成立 (Matthew Cheung: States’ concern with Hong Kong and Macau is unnecessary, groundless, and unfounded)
Ming Pao, November 7, 2018
“Political censorship”: United Nations removes submissions from int’l civil groups at China’s human rights review
Hong Kong Free Press, November 6, 2018
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【疑中國施壓】交聯合國人權專員被删走 香港眾志報告書全文 (Deleted from UN OHCHR webpage: full Submission by Demosisto to High Commissioner for Human Rights for Universal Periodic Review of China)
The Stand News, November 7, 2018Joint Press Statement: China UPR -- civil society deeply concerned by removal of key stakeholder information by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for upcoming Universal Periodic Review of China
Human Rights Watch, November 5, 2018
Video: China grilled over internment camps, civil rights and Hong Kong freedoms at UN review
Agence France-Presse, November 6, 2018
Xinjiang (新疆)
Xinjiang to relocate 160,000 farmers, herders in effort to tackle poverty
Sina English, November 6, 2018
Xinjiang’s Kashgar University students, teachers forced to give up Muslim dietary restrictions
Radio Free Asia, November 6, 2018
Access to Information (信息公开)
Democratic Taiwan battling disinformation from China ahead of elections
Radio Free Asia, November 6, 2018
【又係抑鬱症？】人民日報旗下雜誌總編跳樓亡 陸媒稱患抑鬱症 (Chief editor of magazine under People’s Daily group commits suicide, reports of death initially censored, media cites depression)
The Stand News, November 7, 2018
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