HRIC Daily Brief

China’s crackdown on lawyers sparks debate on party’s strength McClatchy, July 26, 2015 http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/wor...

China's state media pour scorn on Obama's Africa trip Associated Press, July 27, 2015 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/china-...

China's public security chief tries to ease fears about draft law for foreign NGOs South China Morning Post, July 26, 2015 http://ww...

Rights advocates, and a monk, oppose Beijing’s winter Olympics bid The New York Times, July 25, 2015 http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.co...

China uses “picking quarrels” charge to cast a wider net online The New York Times, July 26, 2015 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/27/worl...

港大校友關注組收集逾2500簽名　明日刊登聯署廣告 (HKU Alumni concern group gathers over 2500 signatures in petition urging timely appointment of pro-vice-chancello...

地铁安全与反恐防暴研讨会在西安召开 (Subway Security and Counter-Terrorism Conference convenes in Xi’an) Shaanxi Daily, July 27, 2015 http://www.shaanxi.g...

非政府组织不是反政府组织 (Non-governmental organizations are not anti-governmental organizations) Sina News, July 27, 2015 http://news.sina.com.cn/z...

“广州三君子”案律师大反击 择期宣判围观公民遭遣返 (Lawyers for “Guangzhou Three” strike back, trial ends without verdict and onlookers and are forcibly turned away)...

China’s reality shows must uphold “socialist core values,” regulator says The Wall Street Journal, July 23, 2015 http://blogs.wsj.com/ch...

在台西藏人台湾内政部移民署抗议 移民法落日条款使藏人成国际孤儿 (Tibetans protest Immigration Law’s “Sunset Clause” at Immigration Agency in Taiwan, say it has made Tibetan...

Render unto Caesar: Party leaders persecute churches even as they try to co-opt them The Economist, July 25, 2015 http://www.economist.c...

Police officers are “bullied” by provocative protesters, claims police watchdog chairman Hong Kong Free Press, July 23, 2015 https://www...

Writer criticizes China's new national security laws British Broadcasting Corporation, July 23, 2015 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

Biographies of lawyers, staffers and activists detained or disappeared in the July 10 nationwide raid against rights lawyers China Change,...

张掖中院为家庭暴力受害人撑起司法保护伞 (Zhang Yezhong Court affords protection under law for victims of domestic violence) Kaixian, July 23, 2015 http://ww...

The hypocrisy of China’s war on pollution The Diplomat, July 23, 2015 http://thediplomat.com/2015/07/the-hypocrisy-of-chinas-war-on-poll...

艾未未獲當局發還護照 重獲出國自由 (Ai Weiwei has his passport returned and regains freedom to go overseas) British Broadcasting Corporation, July 22, 2015...

Former chief of China’s state-owned Bright Dairy put under corruption investigation South China Morning Post, July 22, 2015 http://www.s...

New home affairs minister’s ties to pro-Beijing party spark concerns Hong Kong Free Press, July 22, 2015 https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015...