Uighur lawyers collecting new evidence to back ICC case
Radio France Internationale, December 16, 2020
European Parliament resolution would seek sanctions on Chinese officials in Xinjiang
South China Morning Post, December 17, 2020
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Xinjiang (新疆)
Access to Justice (司法公正)
中国公民记者张展案12月28日开庭（Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan to be tried on December 28)
Radio Free Asia, December 17, 2020
Government Accountability (政府问责)
WHO-led team expected in China in January to probe COVID-19 origins: Experts
Channel News Asia, December 17, 2020
新冠疫情爆发近一年，世卫称下月将赴中国武汉调查病毒源头（Nearly a year after COVID-19 outbreak, WHO announces trip to Wuhan, China next month to investigate source of virus)
British Broadcasting Corporation, December 17, 2020
联合国批北京打压维权律师 吁释放常玮平（UN condemns Beijing's crackdown on human rights lawyers, calls for Chang Weiping’s release)
Deutsche Welle, December 17, 2020
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China: Shock at continued crackdown on human rights defenders and lawyers – UN expert
中国：联合国专家对持续打压人权维护者和律师的行为感到震惊
UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, December 16, 2020
ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)
Alibaba Uyghur Recognition As A Service
The Authority On Video Surveillance, December 16, 2020
德国对华为设置高门槛（Germany sets high hurdle for Huawei)
Financial Times, December 17, 2020
Hong Kong (香港)
Hong Kong protests: three opposition figures charged over unauthorised rally say they will not admit to allegations
South China Morning Post, December 17, 2020
Hong Kong authorised over 1,300 cases of surveillance and interception last year
Hong Kong Free Press, December 17, 2020
海外港人宣布发起成立“香港影子议会”（Overseas Hong Kongers announce establishment of "Hong Kong Shadow Parliament”)
Radio Free Asia, December 17, 020
七一遊行 8民主派被起訴 禁止離港、收護照 (8 pro-democracy figures officially charged for July 1 march, banned from leaving Hong Kong and passports confiscated)
inmediahk.net, December 17, 2020
建制團體發公開信促整頓中大 倡推國安教育、管理層問責制 (In open letter, pro-establishment groups urge CUHK rectification: promote national security education and management accountability)
inmediahk.net, December 17, 2020
美參院聽證會討論協助港人 羅冠聰籲加快難民審批 參議員冀推動強硬對華戰略 (U.S. Senate hearing discusses assisting Hong Kong residents: Nathan Law urges quick greenlight for refugees from Hong Kong; senators hope to see tough bipartisan strategy toward China)
The Stand News, December 17, 2020
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Supporting Hong Kong’s Pro-Democracy Movement Through U.S. Refugee Policy
U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, December 16, 2020
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Xinjiang (新疆)
报告：五十多万新疆维族遭剥削沦“现代奴隶”（Report: More than half a million Uyghurs in Xinjiang have been exploited and turned into "modern slaves"）
Deutsche Welle, December 16, 2020
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Coercive Labor in Xinjiang: Labor Transfer and the Mobilization of Ethnic Minorities to Pick Cotton
The Center for Global Policy, December 14, 2020
新疆哈萨克族记者获家人探监 教育营黑幕曝光（Jailed Xinjiang Kazakh journalist gets visit from family, exposes dark side of re-education camp）
Radio Free Asia, December 16, 2020
Inner Mongolia (内蒙古)
Flipping the script: China school reforms spark Mongolian writing revival
Radio France Internationale, December 16, 2020
Taiwan (台湾)
台湾拟修《港澳条例》防“假港资丶真中资”（Taiwan to amend "Hong Kong and Macau Ordinance" to prevent Chinese capital disguised as from Hong Kong）
Deutsche Welle, December 16, 2020
Access to Justice (司法公正)
China: Shock at continued crackdown on human rights defenders and lawyers – UN expert
中国：联合国专家对持续打压人权维护者和律师的行为感到震惊
UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, December 16, 2020
Access to Information (公众知情权)
2020年: 中国在迫害记者排行榜上拿下两个全球第一（2020: China wins two global firsts in persecuting journalists）
Voice of America, December 16, 2020
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Record number of journalists jailed worldwide
Committee to Protect Journalists, December 15, 2020
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2020 World Press Freedom Index: “Entering a decisive decade for journalism, exacerbated by coronavirus”
Reporters without Borders, December 15, 2020
Government Accountability (政府问责)
Family in China who survived Wuhan’s coronavirus outbreak demands the truth over government’s slow actions
South China Morning Post, December 16, 2020
ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)
China’s Digital Silk Road Grows With 5G in the Middle East
The Diplomat, December 16, 2020
How WeChat is helping the CCP control Australian media outlets
The Sydney Morning Herald, December 17, 2020
MSCI chops Chinese firms from global indexes, but will keep them elsewhere
Reuters, December 16, 2020
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MSCI指数将剔除7家中国企业（MSCI drops 7 Chinese companies from its indices）
Financial Times, December 16, 2020
Hong Kong (香港)
China Charges Hong Kong Activists Caught Fleeing to Taiwan
New York Times, December 16, 2020
【12港人】已成年10人被正式起訴 有家屬盼可豁免14天檢疫到場聽審 (Hong Kong 12: 10 adults formally charged; families hope to attend hearing, exempt from quarantine)
inmediahk.net, December 16, 2020
Hong Kong social worker cleared of obstructing police during 2019 demo
Hong Kong Free Press, December 16, 2020
周庭保釋遭拒 高院今頒理由：以儆效尤判監正確 社服令或緩刑非考慮之列 (High court explains Agnes Chow bail denial: Prison sentence is correct; community service or probation was never considered)
inmediahk.net, December 16, 2020
Hong Kong civil servants begin making loyalty oaths
Radio France Internationale, December 16, 2020
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香港政府强逼香港公务员宣誓效忠（Hong Kong gov’t forces civil servants to swear allegiance）
Radio Free Asia, December 16, 2020
This is the year Hong Kong began speaking the Communist Party’s authoritarian language
Quartz, December 16, 2020
居港美作家政治新書被禁賣 嘆國安法逼出版界自我審查 續批評時弊 新書轉台灣出版 (U.S. writer speaks out on self-censorship in Hong Kong under NSL, as publisher breaks contract, bookstore chain declines to carry book)
The Stand News, December 16, 2020
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Xinjiang (新疆)
Xinjiang: more than half a million forced to pick cotton, report suggests
The Guardian, December 15, 2020
Coercive Labor in Xinjiang: Labor Transfer and the Mobilization of Ethnic Minorities to Pick Cotton
Center for Global Policy, December 14, 2020
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调查显示新疆棉花生产大多来自强迫劳动 NGO呼吁服装企业切断与新疆关联 (Investigation shows most Xinjiang cotton production comes from forced labor; NGOs urges apparel companies to cut ties with Xinjiang)
Radio France Internationale, December 15, 2020
I.C.C. Won’t Investigate China’s Detention of Muslims
New York Times, December 15, 2020
Access to Justice (司法公正)
诗人王藏夫妇被以煽颠罪起诉 (Poet Wang Zang and wife are formally charged with inciting subversion)
Radio Free Asia, December 14, 2020
Government Accountability (政府问责)
Chinese professor, despite no remorse, to return home after guilty plea in Huawei theft case
中国教授在华为窃取美国技术案认罪后将返回中国
Reuters, December 14, 2020
Coronavirus: ‘transparency’ of China vaccine questioned by Brazil’s drug agency
Agence France-Presse, December 15, 2020
Chinese Communist Party database leak reveals infiltration into Western companies
Daily Telegraph, December 14, 2020
ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)
Revealed: China suspected of spying on Americans via Caribbean phone networks
The Guardian, December 15, 2020
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