HRIC Daily Brief

江西俩月破盗窃案两万余起 (Within a couple of months, Jiangxi has cracked 20,000+ cases of theft) Legal Daily, June 19, 2015 http://epaper.legaldaily...

Fears over deteriorating health of veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu jailed for leaking state secrets South China Morning Post, June 20, 2...

海南不再开展法院集中接访 (Hainan to discontinue “concentrated” hearings of petitions in courts) Legal Daily, June 19, 2015 http://epaper.legaldaily.c...

China lets citizens’ fingers do the talking to report graft The New York Times, June 8, 2015 http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/0...

Attack gave Chinese hackers privileged access to U.S. systems The New York Times, June 20, 2015 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/us/att...

香港特区行政长官普选法案因少数议员阻挠未获通过 (HK’s legislation on Chief Executive election by universal suffrage is blocked by a minority of LegCo members) Leg...

博白举办车站反恐防爆和消防应急演练 (Bobai, Yulin County, Guangxi, holds counterterrorism and firefighting exercises at train station) Xinhua Online, June 1...

The Guardian view on Hong Kong’s rejection of China’s proposals: another chance for compromise missed The Guardian, June 19, 2015 http:...

Jailed Chinese rights lawyer dismisses “ethnic hatred,” “picking quarrels” charges South China Morning Post, June 18, 2015 http://www.sc...

Rare direct appeal to Xi Jinping appears, then disappears, online The New York Times, June 18, 2015 http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/...

云南一村民疑因阻止官方强行征地被掘土机碾死 (Yunnan villager run over by excavator and dies allegedly when attempting to stop government’s forceful land requisiti...

中国试行环境审计以追究官员环境责任 (China to try environmental auditing to account for officials' environmental responsibilities) Financial Times, June...

China unveils anti-corruption app, asks public to upload pictures of corrupt officials International Business Times, June 18, 2015 http:...

“It is not what we like to see”-China’s government reacts to Hong Kong’s rejection of political reform plan South China Morning Post, June...

巴马县公安局拉开反恐实战技能训练的帷幕 (Bama County Public Security Bureau raises the curtain on counterterrorism combat skills training) Xinhua News Guangxi...

Does Xi Jinping represent a return to the Mao era? China File, June 16, 2015 http://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/features/does-xi...

New docketing procedures come to the Chinese courts Supreme People’s Court Monitor, June 18, 2015 http://supremepeoplescourtmonitor.com/...

China prepares "traditional culture" textbooks for its officials Caixin, June 18, 2015 http://english.caixin.com/2015-06-18/10...

Joint letter on the 2015 US-China strategic and economic dialogue Human Rights Watch, June 17, 2015 http://www.hrw.org/news/2015/06/17/j...

中国反腐下一步迈向哪里？ (What’s the next step for China’s anti-corruption program?) Voice of America, June 18,2015 http://www.voachinese.com/conten...