HRIC Daily Brief

Expanding State Power Still Tops Xi’s Agenda Foreign Policy, May 19, 2022 China’s Censors Aim to Contain Dissent During Harsh COVID-19 Lock...

联邦议院人权委员会：中国人权律师状况更糟糕(German Bundestag's Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid: Situation of human rights lawyers in China is w...

拜登将借首次亚洲行寻求重新聚焦对抗中国(Biden seeks to refocus on China with first trip to Asia) The Wall Street Journal, May 19, 2022 HK takes notes from UK b...

UN human rights chief’s China visit confirmed, including Xinjiang South China Morning Post, May 19, 2022 UN rights chief’s credibility in t...

A Uyghur journalist's demand: Bring an end to my family’s decades of suffering GlobalVoices, May 19, 2022 “如果只允许一种声音存在，那么，唯一存在的那个声音就是谎言...

Understanding the Extent (and Limits) of Chinese Public Support for Russia The Diplomat, May 17, 2022 中办发文禁止离休领导“妄议中央” 中共高层权斗白热化？（Is the or...

黄雪琴和王建兵：“失踪”中国女权记者和劳工维权人面临审判 英国机构被指“无为” China's silenced feminist: How Sophia Huang Xueqin went missing British Broadcasting Corporatio...

不惧北京批评，世卫总干事谭德塞再次表示中国“清零”政策无法持续（Undaunted by Beijing's criticism, WHO Director-General Tedros reiterates: China's "zero" p...

California church shooter in Taiwan 'peaceful reunification' group linked to Beijing Radio Free Asia, May 17, 2022 China air crash ...

Xi’s Control of Domestic Politics Has Trapped Beijing Over Ukraine Foreign Policy, May 17, 2022 Amnesty International has left Hong Kong bu...

Chinese Communist Party warns retired members not to make ‘negative’ political comments South China Morning Post, May 17, 2022 China’s top ...

港府考慮禁用Telegram應用程式　影響十多萬香港用戶(HK gov't considers banning Telegram app, affecting more than 100,000 HK users) HK01, May 17, 2022 【規管法官】港...

北大学生不满校方建隔离墙，多人聚集举行抗议 Students Protest Covid Lockdowns at Elite Beijing University The New York Times, May 17, 2022 Protests at Peking Un...

California shooting by man reportedly driven by hatred of Taiwan condemned by island’s president The Guardian, May 17, 2022 China Eastern B...

當「大白」遭遇《憲法》——上海疫情中的法治假面 (When "Dabai" [gov’t workers in white hazmat suits] meet the "Constitution": the rule-of law mas...

China’s Communist Party congress: all praise Xi Jinping but draw the line at Mao South China Morning Post, May 16, 2022 Chinese TikTok User...

Arrest of Cardinal Zen sends chill through Hong Kong’s Catholic community The Guardian, May 16, 2022 Related: Hong Kong’s next leader John ...

中办发长文禁止离休领导 “妄议中央”(CPC’s Central Office prohibits retired cadres from "arbitrarily criticizing policies of central gov’t") Radio F...

China’s Shanghai aims to end COVID lockdown by June 1 Al Jazeera, May 16, 2022 抗议封锁 深夜聚集拆围墙(Beijing University students protest lockdown, g...

China’s harsh zero-Covid measures risk eroding trust in the rule of law South China Morning Post, May 14, 2022 When rights are restricted t...