Access to Information (信息公开)

The man who controls the headlines
China Media Project, December 4, 2015
http://cmp.hku.hk/2015/12/04/39412/

China suspends reporters over Xi “resigns” typo
Al Jazeera, December 6, 2015
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/12/china-suspends-reporters-xi-resigns-typo-151206150302212.html

China marks first anniversary of Constitution Day with awkward silence
China Change, December 4, 2015
http://chinachange.org/2015/12/04/china-marks-first-anniversary-of-constitution-day-with-awkward-silence/

Related:
弘扬宪法精神加强宪法实施报告会举行 (Work report conference on promoting constitutional spirit, strengthening its implementation)
People's Daily, December 5, 2015
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2015/1205/c1001-27892596.html

中国作家傅志彬因“洗脑”一书被判入狱 (Chinese author Fu Zhibin imprisoned for book on “brainwashing”)
British Broadcasting Corporation, December 4, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/china/2015/12/151204_china_author_jail

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

Labor activists detained for doing the job of the trade union
China Labor Bulletin, December 5, 2015
http://www.clb.org.hk/en/content/labour-activists-detained-doing-job-trade-union

Number of strikes and worker protests in China hits record high in November
China Labor Bulletin, December 3, 2015
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2015/11/memories-of-torture-and-hope-for-redemption/

One Tibetan protester is freed, two others are jailed
Radio Free Asia, December 7, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/freed-12042015165254.html

Detained NGO staff released after police fail to find evidence of prostitution
Caixin, December 4, 2015
http://english.caixin.com/2015-12-04/100882108.html

Government Accountability (政府问责)

EU-China Human Rights Dialogue

European Union raises human rights issues in Tibet with China
The Tibet Post, December 5, 2015
http://thetibetpost.com/en/news/international/4818-european-union-raises-human-rights-issues-in-tibet-with-china

China-Europe human rights forum focuses on children
The State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China, December 7, 2015
http://www.scio.gov.cn/32618/Document/1458093/1458093.htm

Related:
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
Human Rights in China
http://www.hrichina.org/en/convention-rights-child-crc

Wife seeking redress over death of husband in custody is jailed for “blackmailing government”
South China Morning Post, December 4, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1886772/wife-seeking-redress-over-death-husband-custody-jailed

China says corruption suspect returned from U.S.
Hong Kong Free Press, December 6, 2015
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/12/06/china-says-corruption-suspect-returned-from-us/

Bribery confession in China calls into question integrity of college admissions
The New York Times, December 4, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/05/world/asia/china-renmin-university-admission-bribery.html?_r=1

“Fu shakes China”: Former police chief heads stock probe
China Digital Times, December 5, 2015
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2015/12/fu-shakes-china-former-police-chief-heads-stock-probe/

China military tells officers to hold their tongues on reform concerns
Reuters, December 6, 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-defence-idUSKBN0TQ08X20151207

Chinese businessman linked to corruption scandals dies in prison, reports say
商人徐明狱中病故，曾涉薄熙来案
The New York Times, November 29, 2015
http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20151207/c07china/dual/

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

China and the curious case of the OPM hack
The Diplomat, December 5, 2015
http://thediplomat.com/2015/12/china-and-the-curious-case-of-the-opm-hack/

Experts question China's promise to curb cybercrime
The Christian Science Monitor, December 4, 2015
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/2015/1204/Experts-question-China-s-promise-to-curb-cybercrime

Apple denies “censorship hurdles” with upcoming Chinese version of news app
Hong Kong Free Press, December 4, 2015
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/12/04/apple-denies-censorship-hurdles-with-upcoming-chinese-version-of-news-app/

Hong Kong (香港)

Controversial “Internet Article 23” may pass despite pan-dem opposition
Hong Kong Free Press, December 4, 2015
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/12/04/govt-may-have-enough-votes-for-internet-article-23-even-if-pan-dems-vote-it-down/

谷歌拒绝香港警方要求删除打人视频 (Google rejects request from Hong Kong police to delete video of police violence)
Radio France Internationale, December 7, 2015
http://cn.rfi.fr/政治/20151207-谷歌拒绝香港警方要求删除打人视频

Related:
Google declines Hong Kong police demand to remove assault video of detainee
South China Morning Post, December 8, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1887991/google-declines-hong-kong-police-demand-remove-assault?utm_source=&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=SCMPSocialNewsfeed

Opinion and Editorial (观点和社论)

Press freedom needed to win choking air pollution battle
South China Morning Post, December 6, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1887084/press-freedom-needed-win-choking-air-pollution-battle

Hunting tigers and flies: China's media crackdown
Al Jazeera, December 6, 2015
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2015/12/hunting-tigers-flies-china-media-crackdown-151206091317094.html

Access to Justice (司法公正)

Update on case filing reform and other challenges for Chinese courts and judges
Supreme People’s Court Monitor, December 3, 2015
http://supremepeoplescourtmonitor.com/2015/12/03/update-on-case-filing-reform-and-other-challenges-for-chinese-courts-and-judges/

Jailed Chinese rights activist appeals “illegal” and “unjust” sentence
Radio Free Asia, December 3, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-guofeixiong-12032015092021.html

Related:
Join Them, and prove your worth by helping China’s historic change
China Change, December 4, 2015
http://chinachange.org/2015/12/04/join-them-and-prove-your-worth-by-helping-chinas-historic-change/

My final replay in court
China Change, December 3, 2015
http://chinachange.org/2015/12/03/my-final-reply-in-court/

Sentencing of Guo Feixiong adds to serious abuse already suffered
重判郭飞雄凸显中国的司法滥权
Human Rights in China, November 27, 2015
EN: http://www.hrichina.org/en/press-work/case-update/sentencing-guo-feixiong-adds-serious-abuse-already-suffered
CH: http://www.hrichina.org/chs/xin-wen-gong-zuo/ge-gen-zong/zhong-pan-guo-fei-xiong-tu-xian-zhong-guo-de-si-fa-lan-quan

Progress for NGOs battling polluters in court
Caixin, December 3, 2015
http://english.caixin.com/2015-12-03/100881446.html

Access to Information (信息公开)

Tsinghua historian’s book pulled from online shelves
China Digital Times, December 3, 2015
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2015/12/tsinghua-historians-book-pulled-from-online-shelves/

This article is guilty of spreading panic and disorder: More general signs of a crackdown on expression
The Economist, December 5, 2015
http://www.economist.com/news/china/21679481-more-general-signs-crackdown-expression-article-guilty-spreading-panic-and

That’s entertainment: The party says celebrities must behave
The Economist, December 5, 2015
http://www.economist.com/news/china/21679503-party-says-celebrities-must-behave-thats-entertainment

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

Questions follow closing of Beijing art show on violence against women
The New York Times, December 3, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/world/asia/questions-follow-closing-of-beijing-art-show-on-violence-against-women.html

广东四个劳工维权非政府组织遭“打压” (Four Guangdong labor-concerned NGOs suppressed by police)
British Broadcasting Corporation, December 4, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/china/2015/12/151204_china_guangdong_rights_ngo

Government Accountability (政府问责)

General Assembly adopts important resolution on human rights defenders in face of opposition from China and Russia
International Service for Human Rights, November 25, 2015
http://www.ishr.ch/news/general-assembly-adopts-important-resolution-human-rights-defenders-face-opposition-china-and

丧失独生子女的父母罕见集体到北京示威促国家养老 (Parents who lost their only child born under one-child policy protest in Beijing for compensation and financial support for old age)
Radio France Internationale, December 3, 2015
http://cn.rfi.fr/中国/20151203-丧失独生子女的父母罕见集体到北京示威促国家养老

Former Chinese university admission official on trial for bribe-taking
China Daily, December 4, 2015
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015-12/04/content_22626790.htm

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

China and U.S. to test cyber threat defenses
South China Morning Post, December 3, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/1886437/china-and-us-making-slow-progress-halting-cybercrime

Hong Kong (香港)

蘇錦樑：版權條例無收窄言論自由 跟國際標準 (Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Gregory So: Copyright regulations do not narrow freedom of expression and adhere to international standards)
Mingpao, December 3, 2015
http://news.mingpao.com/ins/instantnews/web_tc/article/20151203/s00001/1449131080627

Hong Kong sees rising number of cyberattacks
Voice of America, December 3, 2015
http://www.voanews.com/content/hong-kong-sees-rising-number-of-cyberattacks/3085753.html

Opinion and Editorial (观点和社论)

Despite the release of dissident journalist Gao Yu, media in China still have to walk tightrope when it comes to “classified” information
South China Morning Post, December 3, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1886585/despite-release-dissident-journalist-gao-yu-media-china

香港高铁一地两检成宪制保卫战？ (Has the issue of placing duo immigrant authorities at the Hong Kong Station of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail become a war to defend constitutionalism?)
Deutsche Welle, December 3, 2015
http://www.dw.com/zh/香港高铁一地两检成宪制保卫战/a-18892799

批评人士：二孩政策没有改变计划生育强制性本质 (Commentator: Two-child policy does not change the compulsory nature of birth control policy)
Voice of America, December 4, 2015
http://www.voachinese.com/media/video/congressional-hearing-two-child-policy-china-20151203/3087307.html

Access to Justice (司法公正)

"My brother had a lot of injuries on his body"
张六毛尸检当局拒家属旁观 市检察院官员避而不见
Radio Free Asia, December 2, 2015
EN: http://www.rfa.org/english/women/china-sisters-12022015172820.html
CH: http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/yf1-12022015104301.html

Related:
China: Fear of destruction of evidence during government autopsy
Amnesty International, December 2, 2015
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa17/2988/2015/en/

中国维权人士郭飞雄上诉要求改判无罪 (Guo Feixiong to appeal for acquittal)
British Broadcasting Corporation, December 3, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/china/2015/12/151203_china_guofeixiong_appeal

Related:
时事大家谈：郭飞雄遭重判，受伤的是中国民主还是中国法治？ (Current affairs discussion: Guo Feixiong’s heavy sentence harms China’s democracy or rule of law?)
Voice of America, December 2, 2015
http://www.voachinese.com/media/video/voaweishi-20151202-VOAIO-2/3084693.html

Sentencing of Guo Feixiong adds to serious abuse already suffered
重判郭飞雄凸显中国的司法滥权
Human Rights in China, November 27, 2015
EN: http://www.hrichina.org/en/press-work/case-update/sentencing-guo-feixiong-adds-serious-abuse-already-suffered
CH: http://www.hrichina.org/chs/xin-wen-gong-zuo/ge-gen-zong/zhong-pan-guo-fei-xiong-tu-xian-zhong-guo-de-si-fa-lan-quan

徐某大闹法庭获刑 (Woman criminally punished after disrupting court)
Legal Daily, December 2, 2015
http://legal.people.com.cn/n/2015/1202/c188502-27878758.html

中国食品安全典型十大案例 (10 typical food safety cases in China)
Legal Daily, December 2, 2015
http://epaper.legaldaily.com.cn/fzrb/content/20151202/Articel09002GN.htm

China Focus: Courts accepting more cases after clearance quota removal
Xinhua, December 2, 2015
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-12/02/c_134878392.htm

Dissident Chinese lawyer “incommunicado” after online anger over activist's sentence
Radio Free Asia, December 2, 2015
EN: http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-gaozhisheng-12022015095428.html

Access to Information (信息公开)

BRICS media link up in China
China Media Project, December 2, 2015
http://cmp.hku.hk/2015/12/02/39398/

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

青海乡镇人大工作条例将修订 (Qinghai to amend Township People's Congress work regulations)
Legal Daily, December 2, 2015
http://epaper.legaldaily.com.cn/fzrb/content/20151202/Articel03007GN.htm

信访系统实现31省市区互联互通, 信访数据网上自动生成 (Petitioning system now interconnected online in urban districts of 31 provinces, petition data automatically generated online)
Legal Daily, December 2, 2015
http://epaper.legaldaily.com.cn/fzrb/content/20151202/Articel06013GN.htm

Parents who have lost only child gather in front of Family Planning Commission
Caixin, December 2, 2015
http://english.caixin.com/2015-12-02/100881094.html

Government Accountability (政府问责)

最高法赔偿委员会受理首例刑事违法扣押赔偿案 (SPC’s Compensation Committee accepts 1st ever criminal compensation case for unlawful detention)
People’s Daily Online, December 2, 2015
http://www.chinanews.com/gn/2015/12-02/7652854.shtml

Fears of a political purge grow in China as editor and professor are sacked for “improper discussion”
Global Voices, December 2, 2015
https://globalvoices.org/2015/12/02/fears-of-a-political-purge-grow-in-china-as-editor-and-professor-are-sacked-for-improper-discussion/

China busts more graft-busters
Xinhua, December 2, 2015
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-12/02/c_134878364.htm

China fires head of top music school over daughter's wedding party
Radio Free Asia, December 2, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-corruption-12022015124137.html

China probes a senior oil official's mysterious death
Nasdaq, December 2, 2015
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/china-probes-a-senior-oil-officials-mysterious-death-20151202-00437

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

卿立新：新形势下全面部署网络信息融合新发展 (Qing Lixin: Comprehensively deploy new harmonized development of Internet information in new terrain)
Xinhua, December 2, 2015
http://hunan.ifeng.com/news/detail_2015_12/02/4617869_0.shtml

China behind “massive” cyber-attack on Australian government: ABC
Reuters, December 2, 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/12/02/us-australia-cybersecurity-idUSKBN0TL08M20151202#7txYdwljsVwpupaP.97

China says U.S. OPM hack not state-sponsored
China Digital Times, December 2, 2015
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2015/12/china-says-u-s-opm-hack-not-state-sponsored/

Hong Kong (香港)

不要坐視網絡廿三條通過 (Do not sit idly by and let Internet Article 23 pass)
InMedia HK, December 3, 2015
http://www.inmediahk.net/node/1039269

Related:
Why we can't take our Internet freedoms for granted
Hong Kong Economic Journal, December 3, 2015
http://www.ejinsight.com/20151203-why-we-cant-take-our-internet-freedoms-for-granted/

香港泛民陷网络暗战 中方攻击越发猛烈 (HK pan-dems Internet accounts suffer increasingly fierce cyberattacks from China)
Radio Free Asia, December 2, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/gangtai/xl3-12022015101018.html

“Not a bad thing” more young people aspire to join politics after Occupy –Chief Sec.
Hong Kong Free Press, December 3, 2015
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/12/03/not-a-bad-thing-more-young-people-aspire-to-join-politics-after-occupy-chief-sec/

Police watchdog may refer Occupy assault case to chief executive
Hong Kong Free Press, December 2, 2015
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/12/02/police-watchdog-may-refer-occupy-assault-case-to-chief-executive/

National Security & Counterterrorism (国家安全和反恐)

China doubles down on terrorism “double standards” accusation
Wall Street Journal, December 3, 2015
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/12/03/china-doubles-down-on-terrorism-double-standards-accusation/