Bearing witness 10 years on: The July 2009 riots in Xinjiang
The Diplomat, July 29, 2019
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Xinjiang (新疆)
Access to Justice (司法公正)
China jails award-winning cyber-dissident Huang Qi
BBC News, July 29, 2019
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黄琦被重判12年徒刑
Huang Qi sentenced to 12 years in prison
Human Rights in China, July 29, 2019
Access to Information (信息公开)
China considers blacklist for online rumormongers
Caixin, July 29, 2019
Picasso show captivates Beijing, whose art scene hums as censors hover
毕加索展在北京：中国艺术的繁荣与限制
The New York Times, July 29, 2019
Sexism and propaganda
China Media Project, July 28, 2019
Citizen Participation (公民参与)
Worker protests on the rise as China’s car industry shrinks
China Labour Bulletin, July 30, 2019
Government Accountability (政府问责)
China’s new defense white paper: reading between the lines
The Diplomat, July 30, 2019
Tibet NGOs vocal at UN Human Rights Council
European Parliament Today, July 29, 2019
China “must do more”’ to protect its children from sex offenders
South China Morning Post, July 29, 2019
Why are huge museums in China virtually empty?
Deutsche Welle, July 29, 2019
China dispatches 2,307 young cadres in aid for Tibet, Qinghai
Xinhua, July 29, 2019
Xi Jinping's cousin a high roller as Crown comes under pressure over crime, influence
The Age, July 28, 2019
ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)
China-made surveillance cameras still in US government buildings
Financial Times, July 30, 2019
维吾尔族受害者希望美国制裁中国视频监视公司 (Video: Uyghur victim urges U.S. to sanction Chinese surveillance companies)
Voice of America, July 30, 2019
China’s Beijing Kunlun to revisit Grindr IPO
Reuters, July 29, 2019
Hong Kong (香港)
網民發起不合作運動阻車門 港島觀塘綫部份車站服務暫停 (Civil obedience disrupts MTR services in morning rush hour)
Stand News, July 30, 2019
【元朗遊行】被捕社工獲保釋 另四人涉藏攻擊性武器 還柙至9月 (Social worker arrested in Yuen Long on July 27 detained for 64 hours; 4 other protesters denied bail, to remain in custody until appearance in September)
Inmediahk.net, July 30, 2019
China calls for Hong Kong to swiftly punish “radical” protesters
The Guardian, July 29, 2019
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記者包圍要求回應元朗恐襲 港澳辦發言人未有理會 (Beijing spokesperson ignores reporter’s questions on Yuen Long attacks in rare press conference on Hong Kong)
Inmediahk.net, July 29, 2019
American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong urges “clear leadership”, investigation after more extradition bill clashes
South China Morning Post, July 29, 2019
閉路電視揭7.21大批白衣人集結 警車巡邏無行動 (Surveillance cameras show police inaction for hours as triads gather in Yuen Long)
Radio Television Hong Kong, July 30, 2019
Hong Kong civil servants to take to the streets in extradition bill protest, piling pressure on embattled government
South China Morning Post, July 29, 2019
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Who are the young civil servants defying peers and elders by holding a rally against Hong Kong’s extradition bill?
South China Morning Post, July 30, 2019
Hong Kong’s biggest broadcaster TVB warns employees against actions that would “impose one’s political inclination on work”
South China Morning Post, July 29, 2019
Years of ignoring peaceful protests fuelled Hong Kong violence, says jailed academic Benny Tai
Agence France-Presse, July 30, 2019
Hong Kong police under fire over violent response to protests
Al Jazeera, July 30, 2019
【逃犯條例】私隱署發現492宗官警「起底」個案 政府電話簿暫移除部分警資料 (Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data finds 492 personal data disclosure cases relating to police officers, authorities remove public database entries of junior officers)
Ming Pao, July 29, 2019
Commentary (评论)
性别歧视背后，隐藏着“权力的经济” (The hidden “power economy” behind gender discrimination)
The Paper, July 30, 2019
梁天琦致香港人的信 (Edward Leung’s letter to Hong Kongers)
Inmediahk.net, July 29, 2019
China: Government should release disability rights, Internet activists
Freedom House, July 29, 2019
Hong Kong protesters have decided enough is enough. Officials would be foolish to ignore their demands
South China Morning Post, July 29, 2019
Monday, July 29, 2019
Xinjiang (新疆)
Fifty ambassadors throw weight behind China on Xinjiang
Global Times, July 29, 2019
No Uighur refugees deported to China, officials reject false reports
Daily Sabah, July 29, 2019
The world knows what is happening to the Uighurs. Why has it been so slow to act?
The Guardian, July 26, 2019
哈国人权领袖赛尔克坚面临最高7年监禁
Trial date set for Kazakh activist who blew whistle on China’s mass detention camps
Radio Free Asia, July 26, 2019
Uyghur detainees secretly transferred to prisons in Henan Province: Officials
Radio Free Asia, July 26, 2019
Access to Justice (司法公正)
12-year sentence for China dissident on state secrets charge
Associated Press, July 29, 2019
长沙市国家安全局证实民间组织三成员被刑拘 (Changsha national security authorities confirm 3 members of NGO arrested on subversion charges)
Radio Free Asia, July 26, 2019
China’s courts “biased” towards state giants due to political pressure, study shows
South China Morning Post, July 26, 2019
Access to Information (信息公开)
Confucius Institutes in Australia face probe
China Digital Times, July 26, 2019
Minitrue: Delete article on suicide of bank president
China Digital Times, July 26, 2019
Minitrue: Delete Beijing Youth Daily front page on Li Peng
China Digital Times, July 26, 2019
Taiwan gets tough over fake news blamed on Beijing “disrupting its democracy”
South China Morning Post, July 27, 2019
斯坦福大学胡佛研究所向公众开放《李锐日记》 (Stanford University to open Li Rui’s diaries for public viewing)
Radio Free Asia, July 26, 2019
Citizen Participation (公民参与)
Gay Chinese find a place to be themselves on “rainbow cruise” to Vietnam
South China Morning Post, July 28, 2019
Government Accountability (政府问责)
Beijing’s top office on Hong Kong affairs backs city’s gov’t and police, condemning recent protests at rare press con
Hong Kong Free Press, July 29, 2019
China rejects US lawmaker’s comments on Hong Kong protests, human rights
Reuters, July 28, 2019
Chinese official urged Hong Kong villagers to drive off protesters before violence at train station
Reuters, July 26, 2019
Hong Kong (香港)
盧偉聰發公告讚警隊「高度專業及勇敢」「無私付出」 勉勵要「奮戰到底」 (Commissioner of Police praises police force for “courageous professionalism” and “selfless sacrifice,” urging them to “fight to the very end”)
Stand News, July 29, 2019
美專家：催淚彈動能大可致盲傷腦 研究證毒性令軍人肺部受損 (Anesthesiology expert warns against deploying tear gas in high-density areas, using pyrotechnic charge to fire canisters)
Apple Daily, July 29, 2019
Anti-riot vehicles equipped with water cannons to begin road tests in Hong Kong and could be ready to disperse protesters in August
South China Morning Post, July 29, 2019
Hong Kong: Police fire teargas as thousands march in Yuen Long
The Guardian, July 27, 2019
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727衝突全紀錄：示威者元朗抗議涉黑白色暴力 香港警察對示威者頻密發射催淚彈 (Full record of July 27: Protesters rally in Yuen Long to fight “white shirt violence,” police clear scene with tear gas, batons, sponge bullets)
The Initium, July 27, 2019“No difference”: Hong Kong police likened to thugs after Yuen Long violence
The Guardian, July 28, 201928萬人上街後，香港「光復元朗」申請人因「煽惑非法集結」被拘捕 (After 280,000 march in Yuen Long, man who made application for police permission arrested for inciting unlawful assembly)
The News Lens, July 28, 2019【7.27 元朗】17 受傷 2 人嚴重 最年輕傷者 15 歲 (July 27 Yuen Long protests: 17 injured; 2 severe, youngest 15 years old)
Stand News, July 28, 2019
Police and protesters clash throughout Hong Kong on third day of unrest
The Guardian, July 28, 2019
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中上環遊行拘49人 警批示威者行為越演越烈：我哋已經好克制忍讓 (“We are already very tolerant,” say Hong Kong police as they criticize escalation and “lethal weapons” by protesters)
Inmediahk.net, July 29, 2019警察中上環民居再狂射催淚彈 內外街夾攻驅趕示威者 (Police fire tear gas every 20 seconds in Sheung Wan and central residential areas to clear the streets of protesters)
Inmediahk.net, July 29, 2019Hong Kong protest: Clashes with police turn downtown into tear gas-filled battlefield
The New York Times, July 28, 2019
728示威：有救護員收到命令，指救護車須得警察批准才可以進入示威人群中救人 (Timeline of July 28: Paramedics and firefighters ordered not to enter protest scene without police permission)
The Initium, July 28, 2019
【逃犯條例】有公務員申周五集會 發起人：脫下制服都是香港人 (“We walk with the people”: Civil servants plan rally on Friday to support protesters)
HK01, July 28, 2019
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One in seven of Hong Kong’s elite civil servants call on Carrie Lam to hold independent inquiry into extradition bill unrest but police unions remain firmly opposed
South China Morning Post, July 26, 2019
Hong Kong unrest: “We cannot give up”
The New York Times, July 28, 2019
香港警队恃宠生娇公开顶撞政务司“道歉论”要与其“势不两立” (Hong Kong police force condemns Chief Secretary of Administration for apologizing over poor handling of July 21 Yuen Long attacks)
Radio France Internationale, July 27, 2019
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Hong Kong’s chief sec. apologises over handling of Yuen Long attacks, stirring dissent from police
Hong Kong Free Press, July 26, 2019
612警方開槍疑報細數 橡膠子彈最少10發 事前無舉橙旗警示 (Police suspected of under-reporting rubber bullet use during June 12 protests: At least 10 rounds fired, with no warning issued)
Factwire, July 26, 2019
Hong Kong airport staff stage protest against Yuen Long attack
The Guardian, July 26, 2019
Commentary (评论)
在反修例運動的第50天，回望它是怎麼開始的 (50 days into anti-extradition movement, let’s look back on how it began)
The Initium, July 28, 2019
A letter to Hong Kong’s Carrie Lam: If not to your own conscience, you will be held accountable by history
Hong Kong Free Press, July 27, 2019
Hong Kong protesters are winning without even knowing it. But what next for the movement?
Hong Kong Free Press, July 28, 2019
Hong Kong’s third generation of democracy fighters are not just rioters, they are last line of resistance
Hong Kong Free Press, July 28, 2019
South Africa should take the lead in criticising the cultural genocide in Xinjiang
Daily Maverick, July 28, 2019
It’s as if Hong Kong is now unmoored, so fast have the old ways unravelled
The Guardian, July 28, 2019
Why vandalising the Chinese emblem differs from vandalising the Goddess of Democracy
Hong Kong Free Press, July 27, 2019
The government is gaslighting Hongkongers – here’s why protesters are no longer buying it
Hong Kong Free Press, July 27, 2019
元朗恐怖襲擊夜－一位在西鐵站救治傷者的醫生見證 (Testimony of a medic in Yuen Long station on July 21)
Citizen News, July 26, 2019
Friday, July 26, 2019
Xinjiang (新疆)
Chinese actions in Xinjiang become a matter of international dispute
The Economist, July 25, 2019
维吾尔活动者呼吁施压北京在冬奥前关闭新疆再教育营 (Uyghur activists urge pressure on Beijing to close camps before Winter Olympics)
Voice of America, July 26, 2019
中国国防白皮书披露五年内拘1.3万暴恐人员 (National defense white paper says 13,000 “terrorists” arrested since 2014 in Xinjiang)
Radio Free Asia, July 25, 2019
Uyghur in Xinjiang “vocational training” video identified as educated professional
Radio Free Asia, July 25, 2019
Access to Information (信息公开)
China’s top television news show runs week of reports slamming Hong Kong protesters
South China Morning Post, July 26, 2019
Australian universities face probe over deals with Chinese-state run Confucius Institutes
Agence France-Presse, July 26, 2019
Sen. Hawley asks universities to cut ties with Chinese program
Associated Press, July 25, 2019
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Webster U. defends Confucius Institute against Hawley
Columbia Daily Tribune, July 25, 2019
台湾23家网站被红色渗透 与中国国台办同步 (Officials report23 news websites in Taiwan under mainland influence)
Radio France Internationale, July 25, 2019
Lindsey Graham slams change to iconic bomber jacket for “Top Gun: Maverick”
The Hill, July 23, 2019
互联网信息服务严重失信主体或将被实施失信联合惩戒 (New draft regulations would expand social credit system to online behavior)
Xinhua, July 22, 2019
Citizen Participation (公民参与)
澳洲港生設連儂牆被包圍 中國領事館：肯定中國留學生愛國行為 抗議反華分裂活動 (Chinese consulate in Brisbane praises “patriotic action” of mainland students who attacked Queensland University Lennon Wall, criticizes Lennon Wall for dividing the country)
Stand News, July 26, 2019
淘寶近 20 網店「對港敏感物資」禁售禁運 台網民發起「募集二手安全帽撐香港」(Taiwan students gather second-hand safety helmets to send to Hong Kong as Taobao shops ban sale across the border)
Stand News, July 26, 2019
Government Accountability (政府问责)
How the state runs business in China
The Guardian, July 25, 2019
China’s growth being held back by restrictive resident registration system, urbanisation expert says
South China Morning Post, July 25, 2019
Mainland Chinese buy pastries to voice anger at Hong Kong protests
Inkstone, July 25, 2019
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