HRIC Daily Brief

Text editor releases ‘Free Uyghur’ edition, gets swamped with Chinese spam The Verge, October 30, 2019 Related: Notepad++ and GitHub Are...

Justice in China is notoriously harsh, but reforms are afoot: These days courts prefer to send some convicts home The Economist, November ...

Vancouver school cancels assignment after backlash over Chinese propaganda Globe and Mail, October 25, 2019

China’s sanitation workers need more than just sympathy from the union China Labour Bulletin, October 31, 2019 Protests and political ...

US bill to protect Taiwan from Chinese diplomatic pressure wins congressional committee approval South China Morning Post, November 1, 201...

This is the blacklist Apple uses to censor the internet in China Quartz, November 1, 2019 YouTube’s algorithm apparently helped a Chine...

中共四中全会闭幕，出台香港政策强调“国安” China Says It Will Roll Out ‘National Security’ Steps for Hong Kong The New York Times, November 1, 2019 US sena...

Communists are fascinated by contradictions. China faces a big one The Economist, November 2, 2019 【蒙面法律戰】一分鐘了解緊急法及蒙面法司法覆核申請方理據 (Quick g...

UN members split on China’s mass detention and surveillance of ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang Agence France-Presse, October 30, 2019 Related...

首度有日本教授在中國「被消失」，日本學界聯合聲明：筆墨無法形容的衝擊 ("A shockwave that pen and ink fail to describe": Japanese academics issue joint statement on p...

Kiribati detains crew reporting on China ties Taipei Times, October 31, 2019 China’s new morality guidelines describe how to eat right,...

China's first Fridays for Future sees teen planting trees Deutsche Welle, October 30, 2019 How the Foreign NGO Law Is Affecting Eu...

What Is Happening at China’s Secret Plenum? Expect discussions around slowing growth and the ongoing trade war Foreign Policy, October 30,...

Interior Department Will Stop Using Non-Essential Chinese Drones Bloomberg, October 31, 2019 Beijing eyes facial recognition to speed u...

Hong Kong’s mask ban is being tested in court, and so is the city’s rule of law Quartz, October 31, 2019 Related: Dozens of students ...

林鄭繼續美化警暴，警賊繼續破壞法治 (Carrie Lam continues to demonize protests and praise police violence; damage to rule of law continues) Inmediahk.net, Oc...

U.S., Britain, others to push China at U.N. to stop detention of Uighurs Reuters, October 30, 2019 Related: China warns U.S. that critic...

Tibetan Man Detained After Praying to Dalai Lama Radio Free Asia, October 29, 2019

China’s Longest-Surviving — And Very Illegal — LGBT Magazine SupChina, October 28, 2019 Hong Kong police ask Facebook to remove ‘defamat...

Rights Groups Call For Release of Chinese Journalist Who Reported From Hong Kong Radio Free Asia, October 29, 2019