HRIC Daily Brief

陈桂秋公开致信习近平 吴淦案召开庭前会议 (Chen Guiqiu, wife of lawyer Xie Yang, writes open letter to Xi Jinping questioning her husband’s house arrest; Wu Gan ...

Fears mount of a coming crackdown on Virtual Private Networks Shanghaiist, August 6, 2017 http://shanghaiist.com/2017/08/06/vpn-crackdow...

上海60位维权人士集体起诉国家信访局一案被北京市第一中级人民法院既不立案，又不作出不予立案裁 (60 Shanghai activists collectively sue State Bureau for Letters and Calls, case is neither p...

China's top procuratorate finishes national inspections on judicial misconduct China Daily, August 7, 2017 http://www.chinadaily.com...

留学埃及 新疆哈萨克族学生返家后失联 (Students from Xinjiang disappear after returning home from Egypt) Radio Free Asia, August 7, 2017 http://www.rfa.or...

建制成立關注聯盟 盲撐一地兩檢 政商二代牽頭 與泛民打民意戰 (Pro-establishment groups in Hong Kong form alliance over “one place, two checks” controversy) Apple Daily...

When is a border not a border? In Hong Kong The Lowy Institute, August 7, 2017 https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/when-border...

深圳年底前實行快遞實名制 料明年涵蓋全部郵件 (Personal ID needed for delivery service in Shenzhen before year end, regulation to apply to all mail sent in 2018) ...

China's few investigative journalists face increasing challenges National Public Radio, August 8, 2017 http://www.npr.org/sections/p...

公民监督群第4次被封的告示 (Citizen Supervision group receives fourth notice of closure) Weiquanwang, August 4, 2017 https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/201...

Former senior China Development Bank official jailed for 14 years for graft Reuters, August 5, 2017 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-c...

华为和腾讯陷入用户数据之争 要求政府介入 (Huawei caught in user information row with Tencent and demands gov’t intervention) The Wall Street Journal, August ...

新疆奇台县穆斯林祷告须持许可证 一村25人办理许可证被捕 (25 arrested in Xinjiang for praying without holding a certificate from local gov’t) Radio Free Asia, August...

李飛批評反對派是香港民主發展最大障礙 (Li Fei: Opposition groups are the biggest hurdle to democracy in Hong Kong, and “the position of law and the order of th...

因为都装作视而不见 所以李文星死了 (As policy makers and people who have a voice choose to turn a blind eye on pyramid schemes, Li Wenxing dies as a martyr t...

“非新闻”创办人卢昱宇今获刑4年 女友李婷玉取保获释 (Citizen journalist Lu Yuyu sentenced to four years in prison, Li Tingyu out on bail) Weiquanwang, August 3, 2...

China’s internet censors play a tougher game of cat and mouse The New York Times, August 3, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/busi...

Ex-aide to China’s personnel chief sacked for “corrupt political morals” South China Morning Post, August 3, 2017 http://www.scmp.com/ne...

China has over 700,000 social organizations China Daily, August 3, 2017 http://english.sina.com/news/2017-08-03/detail-ifyiswpt5175170.s...

China bans Uighur Muslims from using their own language in schools International Business Times, August 3, 2017 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk...