Room for 10,000: Inside China's largest detention center
The Washington Post, July 22, 2021
Kodak Deletes Post by Photographer Who Called Xinjiang an ‘Orwellian Dystopia’
柯达删除涉新疆Instagram帖子引发争议
The New York Times, July 22, 2021
Thursday, July 22, 2021
Xinjiang (新疆)
Tibet (西藏)
In China, Chinese Now Tops Tibetan
Human Rights Watch, July 21, 2021
中共被批关闭藏语学校持续推动西藏去藏化(Free Tibet accuses Chinese gov’t of closing Tibetan language schools and continuing to promote de-Tibetization of Tibet)
Voice of America, July 22, 2021
Access to Justice (司法公正)
A legendary Chinese dissident blogger has suddenly fallen silent
Quartz, July 22, 2021
Access to Information (公众知情权)
China’s complicated relationship with LGBTQ+ rights
SupChina, July 22, 2021
Government Accountability (政府问责)
China denounces the W.H.O.’s call for another look at the Wuhan lab as ‘shocking’ and ‘arrogant.’
世卫提议再次调查武汉病毒所，中国称“不可能接受”
The New York Times, July 22, 2021
Related:
Covid: China rejects WHO plan for second phase of virus origin probe
BBC News, July 22, 2021
China must cut emissions to avoid climate ‘chaos’, warns US envoy Kerry
美气候特使克里：中国必须在2030年前削减排放
Financial Times, July 22, 2021
法国：中国黑客正向该国发起大规模网攻(France: China’s hackers are launching large-scale cyberattacks on the country)
Deutsche Welle, July 22, 2021
ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)
China’s Regulatory Turf Wars
Protocol, July 22, 2021
Constant but Camouflaged, Flurry of Cyberattacks Offer Glimpse of New Era
黑客攻击新常态下，我们将迎来一个怎样的时代？
The New York Times, July 22, 2021
Hong Kong (香港)
Five arrested in Hong Kong for sedition over children’s book about sheep
The Guardian, July 22, 2021
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Hong Kong national security police explain why children’s picture books about sheep are seditious
Hong Kong Free Press, July 22, 2021
Hong Kong protests: 7 guilty of Yuen Long MTR station assaults jailed for up to 7 years
South China Morning Post, July 22, 2021
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Hong Kong Marks Second Anniversary of Bloody Yuen Long Attacks
Radio Free Asia, July 21, 2021
Hong Kong court denies bail to 4 Apple Daily journalists on national security charges
Hong Kong Free Press, July 22, 2021
Hong Kong privacy law change will let government block social media
Financial Times, July 22, 2021
郭榮鏗出任哈佛甘迺迪亞洲學人 發表國安法下國際營商風險論文(Dennis Kwok, ex-lawmaker and current Harvard Kennedy School Asia Fellow, publishes essay on risks for int'l business under National Security Law)
Stand News, July 22, 2021
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The Risks for International Business under the Hong Kong National Security Law
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard University Kennedy School, July 2021
美國報告稱國安法削香港自治 中方強烈不滿和堅決反對(Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly opposes U.S. report on National Security Law weakening Hong Kong's autonomy)
Radio Television Hong Kong, July 22, 2021
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Xinjiang (新疆)
Kodak deletes Xinjiang photo from Instagram, vows to ‘respect Chinese gov’t’
Hong Kong Free Press, July 21, 2021
Government Accountability (政府问责)
Biden Has Angered China, and Beijing Is Pushing Back
美中外交交锋升级，习近平能否找到有效反击战略？
The New York Times, July 21, 2021
早有预警？武汉病毒所领导在疫情前数月坦承实验室安全堪忧 (Director of Wuhan P4 lab wrote about concerning conditions months before the pandemic)
Voice of America, July 21, 2021
河南水灾：郑州暴雨已致25人丧生，医院停电，过去24小时发生了什么 (Severe flooding in Henan: 25 dead, power outage in hospitals, and other incidents over past 24 hours)
British Broadcasting Corporation, July 21, 2021
毫无察觉的中国立体监控，令人“不禁想起1930年代的德国” (Undetected but pervasive surveillance in China “reminds one of Germany in the 1930s”)
Voice of America, July 21, 2021
ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)
China Breached Dozens of Pipeline Companies in Past Decade, U.S. Says
美国指中国十年间多次攻击其油气管道网络
The New York Times, July 21, 2021
Beijing's costly plans for cybersecurity 'self-sufficiency'
Protocol, July 20, 2021
Beijing fines and warns big tech groups over explicit content
Financial Times, July 21, 2021
Hong Kong (香港)
Hong Kong national security police arrest 3 former top staff of pro-democracy paper Apple Daily
Hong Kong Free Press, July 21, 2021
Related:
警方國安處撤銷兩人保釋 消息指兩人為陳沛敏及馮偉光(Police revoke bail for Apple Daily ex-associate publisher Chan Pui-man and ex-English news editor-in-chief Fung Wai-kong)
Radio Television Hong Kong, July 21, 2021
Closing arguments at Hong Kong’s first security law trial, landmark verdict next Tue
Hong Kong Free Press, July 21, 2021
Hong Kong protests: 2 students jailed for rioting over Chinese University clashes; 1 more handed prison term for violating mask ban
South China Morning Post, July 21, 2021
Goodbye district councils? Hong Kong’s area committees set to replace local bodies reeling from wave of resignations
South China Morning Post, July 21, 2021
Beijing transfers official from Macau liaison office to Hong Kong to oversee coordination between security agencies, sources say
South China Morning Post, July 21, 2021
Why Hong Kong’s proposed doxxing law alarms Google and Facebook
Quartz, July 21, 2021
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Hong Kong constitutional affairs minister defends anti-doxxing bill’s ‘reasonable balance’ as another group warns of potential for misuse
South China Morning Post, July 21, 2021
學苑：港大學生會遷出 今起再無會址(HKU students’ union moves out of Composite Building with no forwarding address)
Ming Pao, July 21, 2021
School fears up on brain drain
The Standard, July 21, 2021
Commentary (评论)
China: End Persecution of Free Speech with Frivolous Crimes
Chinese Human Rights Defenders, July 21, 2021
Hong Kong: Drop Charges Against Vigil Organizer
Human Rights Watch, July 21, 2021
Related:
NGO Joint Letter to Hong Kong Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng Urging Release of Chow Hang-tung
Human Rights in China et al., July 20, 2021
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Taiwan (台湾)
台灣稱將在立陶宛設代表處 歐洲首個以台灣為名代表處 (Taiwan to establish its first European representative office in Lithuania)
Radio Television Hong Kong, July 20, 2021
ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)
Beijing calls out Amazon, ByteDance, NetEase for violating users’ rights in latest crackdown
South China Morning Post, July 20, 2021
How China Transformed Into a Prime Cyber Threat to the U.S.
中国是如何成为美国主要网络威胁的
The New York Times, July 20, 2021
Related:
Calling out China for cyberattacks is risky — but a lawless digital world is even riskier
The Conversation, July 20, 2021
U.S. Formally Accuses China of Hacking Microsoft
美国正式指控中国政府入侵微软邮件系统
The New York Times, July 20, 2021
Relate:
Four Chinese Nationals Working with the Ministry of State Security Charged with Global Computer Intrusion Campaign Targeting Intellectual Property and Confidential Business Information, Including Infectious Disease Research
The United States Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs, July 19, 2021China: Declaration by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union urging Chinese authorities to take action against malicious cyber activities undertaken from its territory
European Council, July 19, 2021Japan govt says companies targeted by China-backed cyber hacking group
Reuters, July 19, 2021Statement by the North Atlantic Council in solidarity with those affected by recent malicious cyber activities including the Microsoft Exchange Server compromise
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, July 19, 2021赵立坚说美国是全球最大网络攻击来源国
U.S. is world's largest source of cyber attacks: FM spokesperson
Xinhua, July 20, 2021
Hong Kong (香港)
Hong Kong has no time for by-elections to fill more than 200 district council seats vacated by opposition: Carrie Lam
South China Morning Post, July 20, 2021
Small, obscure but newly powerful: a closer look at community groups that will help decide make-up of Hong Kong’s Election Committee
South China Morning Post, July 20, 2021
Hong Kong’s Carrie Lam seeks refuge from city’s anti-bribery laws behind blanket of national security
Hong Kong Free Press, July 20, 2021
Landmark Hong Kong security trial wraps up in test for rule of law
Reuters, July 20, 2021
「傑斯」被控串謀作煽動行為等 10 罪 控方申案交國安法指定法官審理(Online radio host Giggs' case: Prosecution requests transfer to designated national security judge)
Stand News, July 20, 2021
Chan kin-man, co-founder of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Occupy movement, opts for Taiwan ‘retreat’
Hong Kong Free Press, July 20, 2021
US wanted Britain to ‘restrain’ Hong Kong opposition leader Martin Lee from holding 1997 handover protest, declassified records show
South China Morning Post, July 20, 2021
Staff at Hong Kong public broadcaster RTHK ordered not to refer to Taiwan as a country, or its leader as president
Hong Kong Free Press, July 20, 2021
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【整頓港台】員工稱新聞部審查加劇 總監曾警告員工已簽聲明 可被指控不擁護政府(Staff says censorship in RTHK news department has intensified; head of news warns staff of being accused of insufficient loyalty to government)
Stand News, July 20, 2021
Now News exec. resigns, cites ‘turbulent times’ for Hong Kong media – reports
Hong Kong Free Press, July 20, 2021
理大衝突期間紅磡被捕男子暴動等罪成判囚3年9個月(31-year old man sentenced to 3 years, 9 months in prison for rioting in the 2019 PolyU siege)
Radio Television Hong Kong, July 19, 2021
【六四和平集會案】梁凱晴刑滿出獄 短髮現身未有發言 同案 8 人擬不認罪 11 月開審(Former district councilor Janelle Leung is released from jail after finishing sentence over unauthorized Tiananmen vigil in 2020)
Stand News, July 20, 2021
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam shrugs off scenes of residents leaving at airport, says city has ‘prosperous future’ ahead
South China Morning Post, July 20, 2021
民研：五項核心社會指標均不合格 學者指民主已遙不可及(On scale of 1 to 10, survey shows popular ratings of below 5 for all five core social indicators; scholar says democracy is beyond reach)
inmedia.hk, July 20, 2021
Related:
POP release the five core social indicators and latest GGPI
民研計劃最新五項核心社會指標及限聚指數
Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute, July 20, 2021
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