HRIC Daily Brief

Break their roots: Evidence for China’s parent-child separation campaign in Xinjiang Journal of Political Risk, July 4, 2019 Related: C...

周勇军获转控寻衅滋事罪 但最高刑期相差不远 (1989 student leader Zhou Yongjun charge of inciting subversion changed to picking quarrels, fears of heavy sentence r...

Chinese studios impose informal ban on American actors Financial Times, July 4, 2019

Hong Kong singer & protest activist Denise Ho to address UN Scoop, July 5, 2019 China’s academics join calls for reform and opening...

12 years behind bars for corrupt former boss of Chinese warship builder CSIC South China Morning Post, July 4, 2019 Kiwi teen's visa ...

China’s Big Brother buildings are watching how people shop and live Bloomberg, July 5, 2019

“It wasn’t violence for violence’s sake”: The only unmasked protester at storming of Hong Kong’s legislature gives his account of the day’s...

The regime that devours its young souls: The testimony of a local journalist Citizen News, July 4, 2019 吉漢：暴力抗爭先天有道德包袱嗎？(Is there an inhe...

Requiem for the “living dead”: Ten years after 7-5 SupChina, July 3, 2019 Why is the UN ignoring China’s concentration camps and the fa...

周永康儿媳公开发声后获准会见丈夫 (Zhou Yongkang’s daughter-in-law granted meeting with husband after vocal pushback) Radio Free Asia, July 3, 2019 强化保障推进...

As protests rock Hong Kong, Xi Jinping’s view of history shows he will dig in The New York Times, July 3, 2019 China is ramping up its m...

Environmental protest breaks out in China’s Wuhan city: Wuhan residents protested the construction of a waste-to-energy plant, repeating a ...

Taiwan bars retired top officials from “political events” backed by Beijing South China Morning Post, July 3, 2019 流亡西藏政府指控中国当局在西藏也设拘留营 (...

苹果公司去年下半年应中国政府要求下架517款应用程序 (Apple says it took down 517 apps from its Chinese app store in the second half of 2018 at government request) V...

【逃犯條例】警拘12人最細14歲　「佔旺畫家」被捕 (12 arrested over clashes at LegCo, youngest is 14 years old) Ming Pao, July 3, 2019 Related: Hong Kong police...

【採訪手記】「希望有朝一日，我哋可以除低口罩相見」(Journalist’s notes: “I hope that one day, we can take off our masks and meet each other”) The Stand News, July 4,...

US, Germany slam China at UN Security Council over Xinjiang Reuters, July 3, 2019 China snares tourists’ phones in surveillance dragnet ...

Torture and show trial: Former CCP security tsar’s daughter-in-law steps up Twitter revelations China Change, July 2, 2019 Related: An...

China is cracking down on podcasts for this surprising reason Quartz, July 2, 2019 Hong Kong protests: Chinese state media cover demonstr...

Chinese religion official in corruption spotlight “in aftermath of mosque demolition protest” South China Morning Post, July 2, 2019