HRIC Daily Brief

China pushes legal overhaul that would bolster state power 习近平重提制定民法典，欲重塑中国司法制度 The New York Times, March 15, 2017 EN: https://www.nyti...

China's annual parliament ends amid “tightest Internet controls yet” Radio Free Asia, March 15, 2017 http://www.rfa.org/english/news...

Token dissent plummets in China as comrade Xi's power grows Bloomberg News, March 16, 2017 https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articl...

陳文敏：香港已履行23條立法責任 (Johannes Chan: Hong Kong has fulfilled its constitutional responsibility to enact laws for Art. 23) InmediaHK, March 15,...

Xinjiang’s rapidly evolving security state The Jamestown Foundation, March 14, 2017 https://jamestown.org/program/xinjiangs-rapidly-evol...

政协 “濒危” 敢言委员批两高报告避讲法治 (“Endangered” outspoken members of CPPCC criticize annual work report of SPC and SPP for avoiding rule of law question...

China’s censors briefly lift veil on film review process China Film Insider, March 14, 2017 https://www.nchrd.org/wp-content/uploads/201...

『夹边沟祭事』受访者遭骚扰 艾晓明呼吁不要害怕 (Interviewee in Ai Xiaoming’s documentary “Jiabiangou Elegy” harassed, Ai Xiaoming says do not be scared) Radio Fr...

陳光誠：用新法案敦促美國制裁中國的「人權惡棍」(Civil rights activist Chen Guangcheng: New legal bill should be used to urge U.S. to sanction China for its human ri...

China's Xinjiang offers leniency for “terrorists” who turn themselves in Reuters, March 14, 2017 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-c...

七成港人反对京官钦点 望重启政改 (70% of Hong Kong people oppose appointment by Beijing official and hope to reopen political reform) Radio France Interna...

China attempts economic globalization without human rights China Law and Policy, March 14, 2017 http://chinalawandpolicy.com/2017/03/14/...

两会直击: 两高借709案聂树斌案表功不提雷洋 (Two Congresses: SPC and SPP take credit for “709” case and Nie Shubin’s case, Lei Yang’s case not mentioned) Voic...

两会代表谈封网 进出困境难商量 (Representative from Two Congresses talks about Internet control: It is hard for foreign and local businesses to enter and l...

“非法”身份：德国在华非政府组织面临瘫痪 (“Illegal” identity: German NGOs in crisis under China’s new foreign NGO law) Radio France Internationale, March 14,...

经济数据造假的只有辽宁一省？(Is Liaoning the only province that fakes their economic data?) Financial Times, March 14, 2017 http://www.ftchinese.com/s...

Chinese officials warn of global religious extremism threat Associated Press, March 13, 2017 http://www.voanews.com/a/chinese-global-rel...

7 in 10 Hongkongers want Beijing to be silent on chief executive election: poll South China Morning Post, March 13, 2017 http://www.scmp...

Activist Li Maizi on why feminism is “going backwards” in China 李麥子：女權運動在中國為何不進反退 ？ Quartz, March 13, 2017 EN: https://qz.com/928560/fe...

Harsh punishment of rights lawyers is top 2016 achievement, China says Agence France-Presse, March 12, 2017 https://www.hongkongfp.com/2...