Uighurs in China were target of two-year iOS malware attack - reports
The Guardian, September 2, 2019
Wednesday, September 04, 2019
Xinjiang (新疆)
Access to Justice (司法公正)
#StandWithHongKong is essentially a crime in mainland China
Chinese Human Rights Defenders, September 3, 2019
Access to Information (信息公开)
China sends local media to cover HK in shift from 2014
Taipei Times, September 3, 2019
駐港公署敦促《紐約時報》停止為反中禍港分子撐腰打氣 (PRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hong Kong office accuses New York Times of providing platform for smearing Chinese government, requests it stop “untrue reporting”)
Radio Television Hong Kong, September 3, 2019
China sows disinformation on Hong Kong using porn accounts on Twitter
Quartz, September 3, 2019
Citizen Participation (公民参与)
Vancouver’s Hong Kong protesters think they’re being watched. They’re right - but by whom?
South China Morning Post, September 3, 2019
China’s Twitter operation focused on this exiled tycoon before Hong Kong protests
Quartz, September 3, 2019
Government Accountability (政府问责)
習近平：港澳台等工作將越來越複雜 面臨重大鬥爭 (Xi Jinping: Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan affairs will become more complex, face important “battle”)
Stand News, September 3, 2019
Nie Yuanzi, whose poster fanned the Cultural Revolution, dies at 98
The New York Times, September 3, 2019
China tells North Korea it wants ’closer communication and cooperation on world stage’
South China Morning Post, September 3, 2019
Zara seeks to distance brand from Hong Kong protest controversy
Agence France-Presse, September 3, 2019
China says Taiwan was always part of it, but an old stamp shows a telling propaganda snafu
Quartz, September 2, 2019
Senior Chinese leaders lay down law in southern China amid ongoing protests across Hong Kong border
South China Morning Post, September 2, 2019
Putin sees India and China as Moscow’s partner in multipolar world: Alexander Dugin
The Hindu, September 1, 2019
ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)
Hong Kong protestors are once again using mesh networks to preempt an internet shutdown
Quartz, September 3, 2019
Zao: Popular Chinese app swaps your face with celebrities, but prompts concern about privacy
Independent UK, September 3, 2019
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工信部就“ZAO”App网络数据安全问题问询约谈陌陌 (“ZAO” app developer receives talking-to over data security issue)
The Paper, September 4, 2019
Behind the rise of China’s facial-recognition giants
Wired, September 3, 2019
Huawei offers to make source code available to Japanese government: Kyodo
Reuters, September 3, 2019
A Hong Kong protester site says cyber attacks against it piggy-backed off China’s Baidu
Quartz, September 2, 2019
Hong Kong (香港)
Hong Kong leader pulls extradition bill but too little too late, say some
Reuters, September 3, 2019
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Hong Kong protests: what is the difference between Carrie Lam suspending and withdrawing the extradition bill
Reuters, September 4, 2019
Hong Kong’s Chief Executive is disheartened, but no successor is in sight
The New York Times, September 3, 2019
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Hong Kong protests: read full transcript of Carrie Lam’s leaked ’quitting’ talk
Reuters, September 4, 2019北京表示继续挺林郑 斥5大诉求是政治恐吓要挟 (Beijing reiterates support for Carrie Lam after leaked speech, says protesters’ five demands are “political blackmail”)
Radio France Internationale, September 3, 2019
【逃犯條例．短片】太子站21歲青年受傷送院 醫管局︰3男送廣華2仍留醫 (21-year-old protester unconscious after police tackle him, officers obstruct first aid despite possible neck trauma)
Ming Pao, September 4, 2019
警截查九巴最少 20 人被捕 在場人士籲被捕人留姓名電話 警員高呼天雨路滑一路好走 (Police stop and search bus, arresting 20, prevent social worker from helping underage protester)
Stand News, September 4, 2019
Watchdog says Hong Kong police ‘targeted journalists’ after night of tear gas and pepper spray in Mong Kok
Hong Kong Free Press, September 3, 2019
Student leader among three more anti-government activists rounded up in Hong Kong
South China Morning Post, September 3, 2019
Legal tangle after Chow decision
The Standard, September 4, 2019
Commentary (评论)
How to fight for democracy when the government keeps throwing you in jail
Quartz, September 4, 2019
林鄭閉門錄音，仍然推卸責任（文：呂秉權）(Carrie Lam’s leaked address shows she is still shirking responsibility)
Ming Pao, September 4, 2019
Why everyone should care about what is happening in Hong Kong, despite all the world’s troubles
Hong Kong Free Press, September 3, 2019
Has China forgotten how order was restored to Hong Kong after the 2003 Article 23 national security protests?
South China Morning Post, September 3, 2019
Hong Kong: A high-stakes gamble Xi Jinping is destined to make
Human Rights in China, September 3, 2019
Tuesday, September 03, 2019
Xinjiang (新疆)
Sources say China used iPhone hacks to target Uyghur Muslims
Tech Crunch, August 31, 2019
China’s prisons swell after deluge of arrests engulfs Muslims
The New York Times, August 31, 2019
Chinese authorities detain highest-ranking Uyghur police officer in Xinjiang capital Urumqi
Radio Free Asia, August 30, 2019
Skeptical scholar says visit to Xinjiang internment camps confirms Western media reports
Radio Free Asia, August 29, 2019
China’s cross-border campaign to terrorize Uyghur Americans
The Diplomat, August 29, 2019
Access to Justice (司法公正)
Court in China’s Sichuan jails Huang Xiaomin for two years, six months
Radio Free Asia, September 2, 2019
李文足：王全璋稱無必要保外就醫 出獄後須往濟南繼續監控 (Li Wenzu: says Wang Quanzhang refused medical parole, will be sent to Jinan for continued surveillance after serving prison sentence)
Stand News, September 1, 2019
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第三度往臨沂監獄探望王全璋 李文足稱丈夫消瘦及駝背 (On third prison visit, Li Wenzu says Wang Quanzhang is “thin and hunched”)
Radio Television Hong Kong, August 31, 2019
Beijing asked for information on missing Taiwanese man ‘feared detained for backing Hong Kong protests’
Associated Press, August 30, 2019
Staff of NGO linked to Hong Kong arrested in southern China
The Guardian, August 29, 2019
Access to Information (信息公开)
The high school course Beijing accuses of radicalizing Hong Kong
The New York Times, September 1, 2019
‘These kinds of journalists are not welcome’: China expels WSJ reporter who wrote about Xi Jinping’s cousin
Agence France-Presse, August 30, 2019
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报道涉习近平表弟，《华尔街日报》记者被中国驱逐
China expels Wall Street Journal reporter after article on Xi’s cousin
The New York Times, August 30, 2019
China bans an independent think-tank critical of its policies
The Economist, August 29, 2019
News control, in the palm of your hand
China Media Project, August 29, 2019
College professor suspended for diminishing China’s ‘four great inventions’
SupChina, August 28, 2019
Citizen Participation (公民参与)
Where are mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong’s summer of protests?
South China Morning Post, August 31, 2019
Why Chinese and Hong Kong students clash in Australia: the patriotic versus the protest movement
The Conversation, August 28, 2019
Feminism and social change in China: an interview with Lü Pin (Part one of three)
China Change, August 26, 2019
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Thwarted at home, can China’s feminists rebuild a movement abroad?
ChinaFile, August 28, 2019
Government Accountability (政府问责)
針對領頭人村幹部 拒拆遷被「打黑」(Authorities use “strike at evil forces” policy to secure eviction for village demolition)
Ming Pao, September 2, 2019
Lithuania raps Chinese diplomats for role at pro-Hong Kong protest
Reuters, September 2, 2019
The US democrats’ China debate
The Diplomat, September 2, 2019
Hong Kong protests: calls grow to give citizens right to live and work in UK
The Guardian, September 1, 2019
Economic exchange anchors China-Arab ties
The Diplomat, August 31, 2019
Tibetan college grads struggle to find jobs amid Chinese claims of progress
Radio Free Asia, August 30, 2019
Confronting China’s suppression of religion
The Diplomat, August 29, 2019
China is using Kublai Khan’s methods to quell protests in Hong Kong
The Economist, August 29, 2019
ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)
Watch and learn: Chinese university says new classroom facial recognition system will improve attendance
South China Morning Post, September 2, 2019
Confusion clouds China’s social credit system
Agence France-Presse, September 2, 2019
腾讯起诉自媒体作者
Tencent sues critics in clampdown on reputational damage
Financial Times, August 30, 2019
National security concerns threaten undersea data link backed by Google, Facebook
Wall Street Journal, August 28, 2019
Hong Kong (香港)
眾志稱副主席鄭家朗遭3男揮拳打眼 (Demosisto member ambushed by attackers outside his home)
Ming Pao, September 3, 2019
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Hong Kong lawmakers Jeremy Tam and Au Nok-hin arrested, as police continue round-up of democrats
Hong Kong Free Press, August 30, 2019Hong Kong: Immediately release four pro-democracy activists
FIDH, August 30, 2019
【睇片】大埔何郭佩珍中學學生罷課 警員到場撲倒學生 學生受傷送院 (Students assaulted by police outside school as class boycott enters second day)
Stand News, September 3, 2019
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Hong Kong protests: defiant university students, school pupils and residents go on strike, piling pressure on government to meet demands
South China Morning Post, September 3, 2019
Hong Kong leader says she would ‘quit’ if she could, fears her ability to resolve crisis now ‘very limited’
Reuters, September 2, 2019
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Amid crisis, China rejected Hong Kong plan to appease protesters - sources
Reuters, August 30, 2019
Hong Kong court overturns gov’t decision to ban activist Agnes Chow from election
Hong Kong Free Press, September 2, 2019
Head of local prosecutors’ group urges Hong Kong justice minister Teresa Cheng to advise police about ‘reliability and honesty’, leaked email shows
South China Morning Post, September 2, 2019
香港反送中运动以来警方共拘捕1117人 (Police say total of 1,117 arrested over anti-extradition protests since June)
Radio France Internationale, September 2, 2019
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‘A catastrophe’: Hong Kong police say 159 arrested during weekend chaos, 16 charged with rioting
Hong Kong Free Press, September 2, 2019社總理事執行社工職務時被控暴動罪 保釋後呼籲各界關注被捕者權利 (Social worker mediating between police and protesters at front line arrested and charged with rioting)
Inmediahk.net, September, 2019
9.1機場示威：機場交通受阻；示威者破壞東涌港鐵站；警方圍捕，數百人徒步數小時離開東涌，有車主徹夜義載 (Timeline of September 1 protests at airport: Traffic disrupted, MTR station vandalized, island closed off)
Initium, September 1, 2019
一群在港國際人道主義組織工作者聯合聲明：香港有機會陷入前所未見的人道危機 (Joint statement from group of international humanitarian workers: Hong Kong is in an unprecedented humanitarian crisis)
Stand News, September 1, 2019
Hong Kong protests: riot police storm metro station with batons
The Guardian, September 1, 2019
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【831】醫管局：41 人受傷送院 5 男傷者情況嚴重 (41 hospitalized on August 31, five in critical condition)
Stand News, September 1, 2019【8.31太子站棍毆乘客】警：拘 63人 最年輕 13 歲 搜出兩支汽油彈 (Police: 63 arrested in Prince Edward station operation, youngest age 13, two petrol bombs seized)
Stand News, September 1, 2019
On the frontlines: the Hong Kong public hospital doctors making a stand against police violence
Hong Kong Free Press, August 28, 2019
Commentary (评论)
異見藝術家巴丟草：創作時把自己代入香港示威者角色，我不再想到恐懼 (Artist Badiucao says he put himself in shoes of Hong Kong protests when making art: “I don’t think about being afraid anymore”)
The Initium, September 3, 2019
香港「反送中」運動如何進一步分化海外華人社區？(How Hong Kong’s anti-extradition movement is dividing overseas Chinese communities)
The News Lens, September 3, 2019
What is white terror? The slipping of norms in Hong Kong’s flawed democracy
Hong Kong Free Press, September 2, 2019
他们不是恐怖分子，他们不该得到子弹
In Hong Kong, playing tennis with tear-gas grenades
The New York Times, September 2, 2019
New research shows vast majority of Hong Kong protesters support more radical tactics
The Conversation, September 1, 2019
How China is positioning its counterterrorism forces to play a greater role
South China Morning Post, August 31, 2019
黄之锋、周永康：香港人民不会被中共吓倒
Joshua Wong and Alex Chow: The people of Hong Kong will not be cowed by China
The New York Times, August 31, 2019
Bravery and nihilism on the streets of Hong Kong
New Yorker, August 31, 2019
Hong Kong's ‘be water’ protests leave China casting about for an enemy
The Guardian, August 30, 2019
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Access to Justice (司法公正)
Yang Hengjun: Scott Morrison says China's spy claims “absolutely untrue”
The Guardian, August 28, 2019
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杨恒均案受关注 澳总理:不因捍卫国民权益道歉 (“We make no apologies for standing up for one of our citizens,” says Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in pressing for Yang Hengjun’s release)
Deutsche Welle, August 29, 2019
Canada deports Chinese dissident, brushing off concerns he faces jail
加拿大驱逐中国异见人士杨伟
The New York Times, August 29, 2019
Access to Information (信息公开)
微信传达赖喇嘛法像 一藏人遭拘 (Tibetan arrested for posting Dalai Lama picture on WeChat)
Radio Free Asia, August 28, 2019
Chinese propaganda finds a Thai audience
Foreign Policy, August 28, 2019
Citizen Participation (公民参与)
Hong Kong activists booted from Montreal Pride parade after alleged pro-Communist threats
CBC News, August 27, 2019
维吾尔学者伊力哈木被提名欧洲人权奖 (Jailed Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti nominated for Václav Havel Human Rights Prize)
Radio Free Asia, August 28, 2019
Government Accountability (政府问责)
Policeman who pointed shotgun at Hong Kong protesters is among 10 officers invited to Beijing celebrations for 70th anniversary of People’s Republic of China
South China Morning Post, August 29, 2019
Australia takes action against Chinese influence on campuses
Financial Times, August 28, 2019
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