China: Shock at continued crackdown on human rights defenders and lawyers – UN expert
中国：联合国专家对持续打压人权维护者和律师的行为感到震惊
UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, December 16, 2020
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Access to Justice (司法公正)
Access to Information (公众知情权)
2020年: 中国在迫害记者排行榜上拿下两个全球第一（2020: China wins two global firsts in persecuting journalists）
Voice of America, December 16, 2020
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Record number of journalists jailed worldwide
Committee to Protect Journalists, December 15, 2020
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2020 World Press Freedom Index: “Entering a decisive decade for journalism, exacerbated by coronavirus”
Reporters without Borders, December 15, 2020
Government Accountability (政府问责)
Family in China who survived Wuhan’s coronavirus outbreak demands the truth over government’s slow actions
South China Morning Post, December 16, 2020
ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)
China’s Digital Silk Road Grows With 5G in the Middle East
The Diplomat, December 16, 2020
How WeChat is helping the CCP control Australian media outlets
The Sydney Morning Herald, December 17, 2020
MSCI chops Chinese firms from global indexes, but will keep them elsewhere
Reuters, December 16, 2020
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MSCI指数将剔除7家中国企业（MSCI drops 7 Chinese companies from its indices）
Financial Times, December 16, 2020
Hong Kong (香港)
China Charges Hong Kong Activists Caught Fleeing to Taiwan
New York Times, December 16, 2020
【12港人】已成年10人被正式起訴 有家屬盼可豁免14天檢疫到場聽審 (Hong Kong 12: 10 adults formally charged; families hope to attend hearing, exempt from quarantine)
inmediahk.net, December 16, 2020
Hong Kong social worker cleared of obstructing police during 2019 demo
Hong Kong Free Press, December 16, 2020
周庭保釋遭拒 高院今頒理由：以儆效尤判監正確 社服令或緩刑非考慮之列 (High court explains Agnes Chow bail denial: Prison sentence is correct; community service or probation was never considered)
inmediahk.net, December 16, 2020
Hong Kong civil servants begin making loyalty oaths
Radio France Internationale, December 16, 2020
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香港政府强逼香港公务员宣誓效忠（Hong Kong gov’t forces civil servants to swear allegiance）
Radio Free Asia, December 16, 2020
This is the year Hong Kong began speaking the Communist Party’s authoritarian language
Quartz, December 16, 2020
居港美作家政治新書被禁賣 嘆國安法逼出版界自我審查 續批評時弊 新書轉台灣出版 (U.S. writer speaks out on self-censorship in Hong Kong under NSL, as publisher breaks contract, bookstore chain declines to carry book)
The Stand News, December 16, 2020
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Xinjiang (新疆)
Xinjiang: more than half a million forced to pick cotton, report suggests
The Guardian, December 15, 2020
Coercive Labor in Xinjiang: Labor Transfer and the Mobilization of Ethnic Minorities to Pick Cotton
Center for Global Policy, December 14, 2020
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调查显示新疆棉花生产大多来自强迫劳动 NGO呼吁服装企业切断与新疆关联 (Investigation shows most Xinjiang cotton production comes from forced labor; NGOs urges apparel companies to cut ties with Xinjiang)
Radio France Internationale, December 15, 2020
I.C.C. Won’t Investigate China’s Detention of Muslims
New York Times, December 15, 2020
Access to Justice (司法公正)
诗人王藏夫妇被以煽颠罪起诉 (Poet Wang Zang and wife are formally charged with inciting subversion)
Radio Free Asia, December 14, 2020
Government Accountability (政府问责)
Chinese professor, despite no remorse, to return home after guilty plea in Huawei theft case
中国教授在华为窃取美国技术案认罪后将返回中国
Reuters, December 14, 2020
Coronavirus: ‘transparency’ of China vaccine questioned by Brazil’s drug agency
Agence France-Presse, December 15, 2020
Chinese Communist Party database leak reveals infiltration into Western companies
Daily Telegraph, December 14, 2020
ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)
Revealed: China suspected of spying on Americans via Caribbean phone networks
The Guardian, December 15, 2020
Hong Kong (香港)
National security law: Hongkonger charged with secession over alleged independence chants denied bail for second time
South China Morning Post, December 15, 2020
周梓樂死因研訊播放片段 黑影墜落後一分鐘另一人出現 (Chow Tse-lok death investigation: Footage shows person appearing 1 minute after shadow fell)
RTHK, December 15, 2020
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【周梓樂死因研訊】警未能破解梓樂iPhone11 兩度要求蘋果公司協助不果 裁判官籲TG成員作供 (Chow Tse-lok death investigation: Apple twice declined assistance to police to crack Chow’s iPhone11; magistrate judge urges Telegram group members to provide evidence)
CitizenNews, December 15, 2020
Hong Kong’s Bookazine refuses to stock political title by HKFP columnist citing security law fears
Hong Kong Free Press, December 15, 2020
香港民研：繁榮指標創1997年有紀錄以來新低 (Hong Kong Public Opinion Research institute,PORI, shows new low in confidence in prosperity since 1997)
Inmediahk, December 15, 2020
香港中共党员“地上化”？“紫荆党”的七个政治启示
(New Bauhinia Party—localization of CPC members in Hong Kong?)
Deutsche Welle, December 15, 2020
Monday, December 14, 2020
Taiwan (台湾)
Pro-China TV Station Goes Off Air in Taiwan After Losing Broadcast License
The Diplomat, December 14, 2020
Taiwan ‘in talks’ ahead of application to join trans-Pacific trade pact
Reuters, December 14, 2020
Tibet (西藏)
‘The worst form of torture I experienced’: China’s war against Tibetan Buddhism
Independent, December 13, 2020
Access to Justice (司法公正)
著名人权律师唐吉田2020年12月9日遭警方带走 现音信全无 (Well-known rights lawyer Tang Jitian taken by police on Dec. 9, whereabouts unknown)
Weiquanwang, December 10, 2020
专栏 | 西藏纵览：多名藏族维权人士被捕下落不明 (Tibet: Many rights activists detained, whereabouts unknown)
Radio Free Asia, December 11, 2020
EU urges China to give detained Bloomberg staffer access to a lawyer
Bloomberg, December 13, 2020
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彭博中國女記者北京被拘留 歐盟促中國准聯繫律師及家人並給予醫療照顧 (EU urges China to contact lawyers, family members of detained Bloomberg journalist and provide medical attention)
Stand News, December 13, 2020
Access to Information (公众知情权)
记者无疆界：2020年全球拘押记者387人 中国蝉联榜首 (Reporters Without Borders: 387 journalists detained worldwide in 2020; China tops the list of jailers)
Radio France Internationale, December 14, 2020
Government Accountability (政府问责)
Secretive deal allowing Chinese officials to enter Switzerland to interrogate Chinese nationals put dissidents at risk, NGO says
Agence France-Presse, December 14, 2020
中国民族主义者眼中的世界：中国崛起，西方衰落
China’s Combative Nationalists See a World Turning Their Way
The New York Times, December 14, 2020
ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)
Soccer Star Griezmann Breaks with Huawei Over “Anti-Uyghur” Technology
Bitter Winter, December 13, 2020
Hong Kong (香港)
Hong Kong democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai denied bail
The Guardian, December 12, 2020
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黎智英下周三向高院申請保釋 (Jimmy Lai to apply for bail next Wednesday at High Court)
Ming Pao, December 14, 2020
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黎智英被加控勾结外国罪 国安法实施后首宗检控可送中审 (Jimmy Lai charged with collusion with foreign country in first such case under National Security Law; may be transferred to mainland)
Voice of America, December 13, 2020
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蓬佩奧要求釋放黎智英 律政司不點名批評：不尊重司法、企圖干預中國內政 (U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo urges release of Jimmy Lai; Secretary for Justice calls it an attempt to interfere in China's internal affairs, flouting justice)
Stand News, December 12, 2020
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港區國安法｜藍韜文籲香港當局停止針對黎智英 (UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab urges Hong Kong authorities to stop targeting Jimmy Lai)
Ming Pao, December 14, 2020
Hong Kong independence activist Andy Chan acquitted of assaulting police, says case is proof of ‘indiscriminate arrests’
Hong Kong Free Press, December 14, 2020
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警呈陳浩天15張不同角度相 官︰犯案人戴口罩無特徵、難證同一人判陳兩罪不成立 (Andy Chan To-tin acquitted of two charges; judge: identity of masked offender in 15 photos presented by police cannot be determined)
HKCnews, December 12, 2020
12港人家属再收家书要求请律师代认在港控罪 律师质疑中方套料 (Letters from 12 Hong Kongers detained in China ask families to hire lawyers to handle confession; lawyer fears ploy by Chinese authorities)
Voice of America, December 13, 2020
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朱凱廸稱部分官派律師聯絡12港人家屬講解案情 (Eddie Chu: Several appointed lawyers for the Hong Kong 12 contacted families members to discuss cases)
RTHK, December 14, 2020
港府将推公务员签效忠声明 据报道拒签可能被要求离职 (Hong Kong gov’t to push for allegiance statements from civil servants; refusal may lead to removal, according to sources)
Voice of America, December 14, 2020
Hong Kong student activist Tony Chung found guilty of desecrating flag, taking part in unlawful protest
South China Morning Post, December 11, 2020
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