HRIC Daily Brief

深圳大抓捕：王军妻预产期提前胎儿或出血 国保再逼返鄂 (Shenzhen Crackdown: Wang Jun’s wife forced back to Hubei by national security authorities despite advancement of...

China closes social media accounts from top outlets, including Harper’s Bazaar China Film Insider, June 9, 2017 http://chinafilminsider....

卧底伊万卡代工厂被捕 活动人士妻子寻夫 (Activists arrested while doing undercover investigation at Ivanka Trump’s factory, their wives in search for missing hu...

China accuses U.N. rights envoy of “meddling”' in its judiciary Reuters, June 8, 2017 http://mobile.reuters.com/article/worldNews/id...

How WeChat, China’s social media colossus, can get bigger still if smartphones are used more for work, survey shows South China Morning Po...

辯方大狀曾任反黑組督察　庭上稱慶幸毋須陪審團裁決　「除非你是黃絲」　即被裁判官打斷 (Frankin Chu’s defense counsel, former Police Inspector of the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau, t...

【六四28年】冷漠切割才是變相維穩 (28th Anniversary of June Fourth: By indifferently cutting ties with June 4, a disguised form of stability maintenance is ...

Chinese police ramp up charges against detained rights lawyer Radio Free Asia, June 7, 2017 http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/lawye...

China bans “soft burial”, an award-winning novel about the deadly consequences of land reform Global Voices, June 8, 2017 https://global...

The Chinese government just issued a new set of rules for foreign students studying in China Quartz, June 7, 2017 https://qz.com/10004...

倪玉兰再遭警察逼迁 被推下轮椅腰颈受伤 (Ni Yulan evicted by police again, suffers neck and back injuries after being pushed from wheelchair) Radio Free Asia,...

毋忘六四議案遭否決　建制中唯一投贊成票　何君堯：高度讚賞學生情操 (Motion on “the June Fourth Incident” rejected, Junius Ho casts the only yes vote in pro-establishment camp...

The China NGO project ChinaFile, June 2, 2017 http://www.chinafile.com/ngo

美国呼吁中国当局立即释放华海峰等3名中国劳工权利活动人士 (U.S. calls on Chinese authorities to immediately release 3 labor rights activists, including Hua Haifeng) Ra...

Media round-up: Pro-Beijing newspapers bury or ignore Hong Kong’s Tiananmen vigil Hong Kong Free Press, June 5, 2017 https://www.hongkon...

Mourners blocked from visiting grave of Tiananmen activist Li Wangyang in China, sister says Hong Kong Free Press, June 6, 2017 https:/...

揭阳市委原书记陈弘平受贿13991.678万元被判死缓 (Former Jieyang Municipal Committee Secretary sentenced to death with 2-year reprieve for accepting bribes of RM...

微博起死回生：用户恢复增长 市值超160亿美元 (Weibo’s Revival: user-growth restored and market value over $16 billion) Phoenix News, June 6, 2017 http://tech...

Hong Kong leader CY Leung tells young people to “reflect” on their Chinese identity amid June 4 controversy South China Morning Post, June...

Tiananmen survivor Rose Tang: Be separatists, be proud, and let the revolution begin in Hong Kong Hong Kong Free Press, June 4, 2017 htt...