HRIC Daily Brief

Liu Xiaobo: Angela Merkel calls on China to show humanity to ailing activist The Guardian, July 11, 2017 https://www.theguardian.com/wor...

Chinese labor activist says he was arrested due to factory's Trump links The Guardian, July 10, 2017 https://www.theguardian.com/wor...

China moves to block Internet VPNs from 2018 The Guardian, July 11, 2017 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/11/china-moves-to-bl...

王宇首次曝光狱中受酷刑 709声援者海牙法庭抗议 (Wang Yu makes public for the first time torture suffered during detainment, activists hold 709 protest outside Hag...

May meets Xi Jinping as China suggests “shelving” Hong Kong row The Guardian, July 8, 2017 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/08...

Hong Kong survey respondents give “one country, two systems” a fail mark South China Morning Post, July 10, 2017 http://www.scmp.com/new...

Human rights: Is China likely to build a better world? EJ Insight, July 10, 2017 http://www.ejinsight.com/20170710-human-rights-is-china...

刘晓波病情危重 中国外交部：出国无先例 (Liu Xiaobo in critical condition, China Ministry of Foreign Affairs: seeking treatment abroad is without precedent) Ra...

Isolated, tortured and mentally scarred ... the plight of China’s human rights lawyers two years after “709 crackdown” South China Morning...

The Great Firewall of China grows stronger as China forces app stores to remove VPNs Techdirt, July 7, 2017 https://www.techdirt.com/art...

G20汉堡峰会期间中国海外异议人士团体举办系列抗议活动 (During the G20 Hamburg Summit, overseas Chinese dissidents organize series of protests) Radio Free Asia, July...

Flooding in southern China causes deaths, damage and anger The Washington Post, July 7, 2017 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_p...

Beijing is not insisting Carrie Lam pass a national security law right now, senior adviser claims South China Morning Post, July 7, 2017 ...

China: Authorities must end ruthless crackdown on human rights lawyers and activists Amnesty International, July 7, 2017 https://www.amn...

醫院深夜再出聲明 指免疫治療欠足夠臨牀證據不宜用 (Hospital: immunotherapy cannot be used to treat Liu Xiaobo because of lack of clinical evidence) Mingpao, July 7...

人权组织呼吁中国停止迫害维权律师 (Human rights organization calls China to stop persecuting rights lawyers) Voice of America, July 7, 2017 https://www.v...

International NGOs' China operations hit by registration delays under new law Reuters, July 6, 2017 http://www.reuters.com/article/u...

Egyptian police said to detain Chinese Uighurs in wide sweep Associated Press, July 6, 2017 https://www.voanews.com/a/egyptian-police-sa...

劉兆佳：不急於一兩年內推23條立法 (Liu Zhaojia: there is no hurry to enact Article 23 in the next one year or two) Radio Television Hong Kong, July 7, 20...

林鄭月娥的懷柔詭計 (Carrie Lam’s conciliation trick) Inmediahk, July 7, 2017 https://www.inmediahk.net/node/1050541 不能讓歪理說得理直氣壯 (False reasoni...