HRIC Daily Brief

China to review murder sentence in loan shark killing case Reuters, March 26, 2017 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-crime-idUSKB...

Muslims in China's Tianjin protest decades of land sales, eviction Radio Free Asia, March 28, 2017 http://www.rfa.org/english/news/c...

中国新规定：互联网“翻墙”有罪 (New Chinese regulation: Criminalization of use of VPN) Voice of America, March 28, 2017 http://www.voachinese.com/a/Chi...

On state TV, Chinese forces storm a compound a lot like Bin Laden’s 模仿獵殺本·拉登？中國在新疆特訓反恐武裝 The New York Times, March 29, 2017 EN: http://...

Beijing will rely more on “legal means” to strengthen authority in Hong Kong South China Morning Post, March 28, 2017 http://www.scmp.co...

China’s extraordinary response to the 11-nation letter over the torture of human rights lawyers China Change, March 28, 2017 https://chi...

Scholar banned from leaving China studied crackdown on rights lawyers: Colleague Radio Free Asia, March 27, 2017 http://www.rfa.org/engl...

China's Great Firewall gives rise to a robust industry of information smugglers Global Voices, March 28, 2017 https://globalvoices.o...

Postcard from China: Secret video of a women’s rights demonstration The New York Times, March 27, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/...

诗人王藏将起诉当局 为遭逼疯妻子讨公道 (Poet Wang Zang to sue authorities for his wife who suffers psychological distress after being harassed and threatened b...

Did China quietly authorize law enforcement to access data anywhere in the world? Lawfare Blog, March 27, 2017 https://www.lawfareblog.co...

Hong Kong Chief Exec.-elect Carrie Lam says she had no knowledge of pro-democracy leader crackdown, reiterates “unity” Hong Kong Free Pres...

Missing Taiwanese man may be in Chinese custody, some fear 台灣人權人士失蹤，疑為中國當局羈押 The New York Times, March 27, 2017 EN: http://cn.nytimes.c...

Police fire pepper spray at thousands protesting evictions in China's Henan Radio Free Asia, March 27, 2017 http://www.rfa.org/engli...

Shuanggui: The harsh, hidden side of China’s war on graft, and how one man disappeared into it The Globe and Mail, March 27, 2017 http:...

浙江各教堂被强装监控探头 官称为了“反恐” (Surveillance cameras installed in churches in Zhejiang, officials say they are for “counterterrorism”) Radio Free A...

Hong Kong elections: Carrie Lam voted leader amid claims of China meddling The Guardian, March 26, 2017 https://www.theguardian.com/worl...

A court in China wrote a poignant verdict on the killing of a reporter who covered domestic violence—by her husband Quartz, March 23, 2017...

Chinese activists call for probe into fatal Henan primary school crush Radio Free Asia, March 23, 2017 http://www.rfa.org/english/news/...

江苏一男子派出所猝死 证据遭销毁警方要求“私了” (Man dies suddenly in detention center in Jiangsu, evidence erased, police ask to “settle privately”) Radio Free ...