The HRIC Daily Brief is a daily selection of news stories and commentary related to human rights in China, drawn from Chinese- and English-language news and online media sources that we monitor daily. In addition to headlines and source links, HRIC also provides English translation of Chinese headlines.

Monday, August 17, 2020

Xinjiang (新疆)

Confessions of a Xinjiang Camp Teacher
The Diplomat, August 17, 2020

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visits Tibet to ‘send message to India’ over border dispute
South China Morning Post, August 16, 2020

Access to Justice (司法公正)

余文生首获会见律师 妻子忧齿落手残 (Yu Wensheng meets with a lawyer for the first time, wife worried by disability in his right hand and his teeth problem)
Deutsche Welle, August 17, 2020

Access to Information (公众知情权)

称中共"政治僵尸" 蔡霞被中央党校开除党籍 (Cai Xia, former Central Party School teacher, is expelled from school and Party for calling the CPC a "political zombie")
Deutsche Welle, August 17, 2020

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

US expands sanctions on China's Huawei to limit technology access
Radio France Internationale, August 17, 2020

A Third of TikTok’s U.S. Users May Be 14 or Under, Raising Safety Questions
TikTok三成美国用户为低龄儿童,引发安全担忧

The New York Times, August 17, 2020

美国出台限制华为新措施 38家华为关联实体被点名 (U.S. introduces new restrictions on Huawei, including 38 Huawei-affiliated entities)
Voice of America, August 17, 2020

Government Accountability (政府问责)

As Relations With U.S. Sink, China Tones Down ‘Hotheaded’ Nationalism
中国缓和民族主义论调,呼吁与美国休战

The New York Times, August 17, 2020

Hong Kong (香港)

UK halts military training for Hong Kong police as relations with China decline
The Guardian, August 15, 2020

港台訪羅冠聰節目下架 梁家榮內部解說:不可成傳播反國安法平台 (Responding to internal review, RTHK broadcasting director justifies taking Nathan Law's interview off air: RTHK cannot become an anti-National Security Law platform)
HK01, August 16, 2020

立法會延任一年 曾國衞:人大常委決定體會民意 梁家傑:民主派擬與初選出線人尋共識 (Legislative Council is extended for one more year; Erick Tsang, Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs: NPC's decision “absolutely represents the wishes of the people”)
Ming Pao, August 15, 2020

有教育團體批解僱邵家臻戴耀廷 促兩大撤回決定 (Education groups criticize the firing of Bottle Shiu Ka-chun and Benny Tai Yiu-ting, urging retraction of the decision)
Radio Television Hong Kong, August 15, 2020

Related:
近4千人響應學術界聯署 促撤回解僱戴耀廷、邵家臻決定 (Nearly 4,000 in academic circles sign petition urging retraction of decision to fire Bottle Shiu and Benny Tai)
inmediahk.net, August 15, 2020

特首:受中央信任實施國安法感光榮 絕不被制裁嚇倒 (Carrie Lam: It's my honor to have the trust of the central government in implementing the National Security Law; sanctions can never scare me)
Radio Television Hong Kong, August 17, 2020

Commentary (评论)

On being continually doxxed, defamed and harassed by Communist Party allies
Hong Kong Free Press, August 16, 2020

中国司法:张玉环案的司法进步和吏治问题 (Case of innocent man released after serving 27 years: Progress in the judiciary versus local corruption)
British Broadcasting Corporation, August 15, 2020

Friday, August 14, 2020

Xinjiang (新疆)

The Xinjiang Camp Debt Trap
The Diplomat, August 14, 2020

世维会吁国际奥会不在北京举行2022冬奥 (World Uyghur Congress urges International Olympic Committee not to hold 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing)
Deutsche Welle, August 14, 2020

Access to Justice (司法公正)

中國維權律師余文生被捕兩年多 首獲准見律師 太太許艷:余右手手震、牙齒脫落 (Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng detained for over two years, finally allowed to meet with lawyer; Yu's wife: Yu's right hand shakes and he's missing teeth)
The Stand News, August 14, 2020

Access to Information (公众知情权)

印度“习特勒”视频引北京不满 制作者不惧威胁拒删 (India's "Xi-tler" video draws China's ire, defiant producers refuse to delete video)
Radio Free Asia, August 13, 2020

Government Accountability (政府问责)

'End of the Rainbow': Shanghai Pride shuts down amid shrinking space for China's LGBTQ community
Cable News Network, August 14, 2020

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

Exclusive: ByteDance censored anti-China content in Indonesia until mid-2020, sources say
Reuters, August 13, 2020

Google to reject direct data requests from Hong Kong gov’t, treat city same as China – report
Hong Kong Free Press, August 14, 2020

美司法部助理部长抨击中国“抢劫复制”式发展模式 (Assistant Attorney General for National Security criticizes China's "robbing and copying" of economic development model)
Voice of America, August 14, 2020

Hong Kong (香港)

Hong Kong protests: teen seeking to pursue injury claim over October shooting by police slams rejection of legal aid application
South China Morning Post, August 14, 2020

Related:
【抗暴之戰】法援署拒批荃灣中槍學生「健仔」申請 稱警方使用「武力合理」 (Student shot by police in Tsuen Wan last year denied access to legal aid; Legal Aid Department says use of force reasonable)
Apple Daily, August 14, 2020

Commentary (评论)

习近平为什么要杀了香港这只“下金蛋的鹅”?(Why is Xi Jinping killing Hong Kong,"the goose that lays the golden eggs"?)
Voice of America, August 14, 2020

Biden’s China Policy Can’t Help but Be Incoherent
Foreign Policy, August 13, 2020

Thursday, August 13, 2020

Xinjiang (新疆)

蓬佩奥在捷克演讲:中共迫害百万维族人是本世纪最大污点(Pompeo in Czech Republic: CCP's persecution of Uighurs is century's greatest atrocity)
Voice of America, August 13, 2020

Government Accountability (政府问责)

Sexual abuse, assault – the Grim prospects for China’s blind women
Agence France-Presse, August 13, 2020

The Misuse of China’s Mental Hospitals
The Diplomat, August 13, 2020

US set to make China’s Confucius Institutes register as ‘foreign missions’
South China Morning Post, August 13, 2020

武汉病毒研究所接受美媒采访 再引中美病毒源头争论(Wuhan Institute of Virology’s NBC interview reignites dispute surrounding origin of virus)
British Broadcasting Corporation, August 13, 2020

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

华为再失一国,斯洛文尼亚向美国表示要抵御中国威胁 (Huawei loses another country, Slovenia tells U.S. to resist threat of China)
Voice of America, August 13, 2020

Hong Kong (香港)

Jimmy Lai says swift arrest points to 'great disorder' between Hong Kong and China police
The Guardian, August 13, 2020

香港为何向黎智英开刀?蓬佩奥深表担忧 (Why did Hong Kong arrest Jimmy Lai? Pompeo expresses deep concern)
Radio Free Asia, August 10, 2020

警欲破解手機 李柱銘等人提覆核質疑手令範圍太闊 (Martin Lee and others request judicial review of police's broad powers to search phones)
Apple Daily, August 13, 2020

羅冠聰港台受訪節目下架 港台:涉國安法被通緝 羅:被通緝者有沒有受訪的權利? (RTHK removes interview with Nathan Law; Law: does a fugitive have the right to be interviewed?)
CitizenNews, August 13, 2020

Some four in 10 AmCham members considering leaving Hong Kong over national security law fears, survey finds
South China Morning Post, August 13, 2020