HRIC Daily Brief

“人质外交”?维族学者消失三年后突现身 (“Hostage diplomacy"? Uyghur scholar reappears after being missing for three years) Deutsche Welle, May 7, 2020

上海杨浦区法院原院长任湧飞被双开：充当黑恶势力保护伞 (Former head of Shanghai Yangpu District Court is fired and stripped of Party membership for shielding criminal e...

Coronavirus may have jumped to humans as early as October, study says South China Morning Post, May 7, 2020 欧盟：中国日报删除欧洲27国大使联名文章部分内容令人遗憾 ...

新冠维权路漫漫，逝者家属受监控威胁 (COVID-19 rights protection arduous, family members of deceased under threat of surveillance) Radio Free Asia, May 6, 2020

Hong Kong’s mass arrests are giving police crucial intelligence: people’s phones Quartz, May 6, 2020 WeChat's surveillance of interna...

Mike Pompeo says US report assessing Hong Kong autonomy to be delayed until after Chinese legislative session; maintains coronavirus claims ...

只求「死也瞑目」的黃琦母親 (Mother of imprisoned June Fourth activist Huang Qi asks government to allow visit with her son before illness takes her away)...

Coronavirus Survivors Want Answers, and China Is Silencing Them 中国新冠幸存者寻求答案和公正，政府却令他们噤声 The New York Times, May 6, 2020 回声报：国际社会要求调查新冠病毒源...

杀人嫌疑逃亡24年 却去自首 民众忧“健康码”如电子手铐 (Lack of “health code” forced murder suspect to turn himself in after 24 years on the run) Radio Free Asia, May...

China calls Hong Kong protesters a 'political virus' The Guardian, May 6, 2020 Hong Kong prisons need independent monitor, say ac...

讀者來函：「一國兩制」到了最危險的時候？ (Readers' mail: Is “one country, two systems” facing its most critical moment?) The Initium, May 6, 2020 憲法未曾適用大陸...

武汉病毒所移除照片 英国防大臣：中国要回答疑点 (UK defense minster: China must account for why Wuhan Virology Lab removed photos, info from its website) Radio Free...

简报：中国压制国内疫情追责言论；全球发力新冠疫苗 (Bulletin: China suppresses domestic speech seeking accountability for COVID-19 outbreak; global efforts to develop...

Hong Kong police chief accuses Apple Daily of running target campaign against him, reveals the newspaper is being investigated for alleged f...

限聚令，警察政府怎捨得放手 (Social gathering ban—too good a weapon for police and government not to use) inmediahk.net, May 5, 2020 Lord Alton: UK mus...

新疆大學師生被迫「亮劍」　宣誓效忠政府　抵制美《維吾爾人權法案》 (Uyghur students and teachers in Xinjiang universities are forced to vow allegiance to central government, ...

Coronavirus Survivors Want Answers, and China Is Silencing Them New York Times, May 4, 2020

DHS report: China hid virus’ severity to hoard supplies Associated Press, May 4, 2020 澳大学生遭开除威胁 全因他公开批判中国的人权迫害 (Australian university stu...

Exclusive: Internal Chinese report warns Beijing faces Tiananmen-like global backlash over virus – sources Reuters, May 4, 2020 美國會跨黨去信特朗...

Beijing loyalist urges Hong Kong to pass national security law by next August Hong Kong Free Press, May 5, 2020 Hong Kong lawmaker Starry...