Access to Justice (司法公正)

“云上法庭”在厦门首发落地，人脸识别自动对比审核身份信息 (Xiamen launches “smart” court utilizing cloud computing technology)
Economic Daily, June 29, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2227144

女高中生自杀引发对中国反性骚扰立法关注(High school girl suicide incident sparks discussion of sexual harassment legislation in China)
Radio Free Asia, June 28, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/kejiaowen/wy-06282018122031.html

中共黨員赴麥加朝覲被開除黨籍　中紀委：違反黨的政治紀律 (CPC member expelled from the Party for attending hajj at Mecca)
The Stand News, June 29, 2018
https://thestandnews.com/china/中共黨員赴麥加朝覲被開除黨籍-中紀委-違反黨的政治紀律

Access to Information (信息公开)

The great firewall of China: Xi Jinping’s internet shutdown
The Guardian, June 28, 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jun/29/the-great-firewall-of-china-xi-jinpings-internet-shutdown

Beijing welcomes Wall Street, but bans Hollywood, in “openness for business” push amid trade spat with Trump
South China Morning Post, June 29, 2018
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2153147/beijing-welcomes-wall-street-bans-hollywood-openness-business

China says US should tell airlines to change websites in Taiwan row
Channel NewsAisa, June 29, 2018
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/china-says-us-should-tell-airlines-to-change-websites-in-taiwan-row-10484272

Students snitch on teachers as China pushes ideology on campus
VOA News, June 29, 2018
https://www.voanews.com/a/students-report-on-teachers-as-china-pushes-ideology-on-campus/4459896.html

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

藏人代表在澳洲国会就西藏宗教状况作证 (Tibetan representatives testify at Australian parliament)
Radio Free Asia, June 28, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/shaoshuminzu/dz-06282018101409.html

Government Accountability (政府问责)

江苏张家港通报沙钢污染事件处理：34名干部和责任人被问责 (Jiangsu steel factory pollution investigation holds 34 officials accountable)
The Paper, June 28, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2226199

“公众满意度”将纳入基层政务公开试点评估标准 (“Public satisfaction” as assessment criterion of local governments’ services)
Legal Daily, June 28, 2018
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/index_article/content/2018-06/28/content_7580801.htm?node=5955

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

China wants eyes and ears on every street
The Economist, June 28, 2018
https://www.economist.com/china/2018/06/30/china-wants-eyes-and-ears-on-every-street

Hong Kong (香港)

Hong Kong gears up for annual protest as leader marks first year in office
Channel NewsAsia, June 29, 2018
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/hong-kong-gears-up-for-annual-protest-as-leader-marks-first-year-in-office-10484152

七一遊行維園草坪起步 民陣籲市民避免衝突 歡迎沿途加入 (Civil Human Rights Front urges residents to join July 1 march along the way and avoid confrontation)
inmediahk.net, June 28, 2018
https://www.inmediahk.net/node/1057977

港大學生會缺席七一遊行 會長：結束一黨專政非現時訴求 (Hong Kong University students opt out of July 1 march: ending one-party rule not a current demand)
inmediahk.net, June 28, 2018
https://www.inmediahk.net/node/1057975

Related:
Prosecutions hobble Hong Kong activist leaders
VOA News, June 29, 2018
https://www.voanews.com/a/prosecutions-hobble-hong-kong-activist-leaders-/4458904.html

Hong Kong's democracy movement “needs new ideas”
Deutsche Welle, June 29, 2018
https://www.dw.com/en/hong-kongs-democracy-movement-needs-new-ideas/a-44457328

Hong Kong slams US report on human trafficking despite waiver keeping it off list of worst offenders
South China Morning Post, June 29, 2018
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2153094/plan-eliminating-human-trafficking-enough

No evidence that Hong Kong judges are prejudiced by “political persuasion,” city’s Law Society states
South China Morning post, June 29, 2018
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2152996/no-evidence-hong-kong-judges-are-prejudiced

Commentary (评论)

Does Hong Kong’s annual July 1 democracy march violate the law? An analysis and rebuttal
Hong Kong Free Press, June 29, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/06/29/hong-kongs-annual-july-1-democracy-march-violate-law-analysis-rebuttal/

Baptist University speaks the right language
South China Morning Post, June 29, 2018
http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2153009/baptist-university-speaks-right-language

Access to Justice (司法公正)

Chinese rights lawyer “forcibly medicated” in prison: family
Radio Free Asia, June 27, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/medicated-06272018131637.html

China locks up, tortures Muslims in “re-education camps”
Radio Free Asia, June 27, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/china-locks-up-tortures-muslims-in-re-education-camps-06272018150827.html

Related:
Rising star footballer is among more than a million Uyghurs sent to Chinese “re-education” camps
Global Voices, June 25, 2018
https://globalvoices.org/2018/06/25/rising-star-footballer-is-among-more-than-a-million-uyghurs-sent-to-chinese-re-education-camps/

新疆当局虐待被扣少数民族招式曝光 (Brutal treatment of detained ethnic minorities in Xinjiang exposed)
Radio Free Asia, June 27, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/xinjing-muslim-06272018084331.html?encoding=simplified

More than 2 dozen Uyghurs from one Xinjiang county perished in re-education camps
Radio Free Asia, June 27, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/deaths-06272018141605.html

Professor who called on Chinese president to resign faces subversion trial
Radio Free Asia, June 28, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/professor-who-called-on-chinese-president-to-resign-06282018114232.html

Access to Information (信息公开)

陈一新：应对国家政治安全风险挑战“一二三四五”对策 (CPC Political and Legal Affairs Commission Secretary highlights cyberspace as one of two strategic battlefields for safeguarding national and political security)
Chang An Jian (WeChat), June 28, 2018
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/index_article/content/2018-06/28/content_7580239.htm?node=5955

衡水一中邯郸分校回应校门停放坦克争议：加强爱国主义教育 (Hengshui high school places 2 tanks at school gate to strengthen patriotic education)
The Paper, June 27, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2223688

Mao 101: inside a Chinese classroom training the communists of tomorrow
The New York Times, June 28, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/world/asia/chinese-classrooms-education-communists.html

Exclusive: China rejects US request for talks on airline website dispute
Channel NewsAsia, June 28, 2018
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/china-rejects-us-request-for-talks-on-airline-website-row-10478962

The one person in China who can’t talk about soccer during The World Cup
SupChina, June 27, 2018
https://supchina.com/2018/06/27/the-one-person-in-china-who-cant-talk-about-soccer-during-the-world-cup/

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

内蒙古牧民抗议草场遭强占及官员贪腐 (Inner Mongolian herdsmen protest grassland seizure, official corruption)
Radio Free Asia, June 27, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/shaoshuminzu/ql1-06272018100112.html

镇江市退伍军人维权遭镇压　3老兵失联疑在清场行动中死亡 (Three veterans still missing after protest forcefully disbanded as rumor of death spreads)
Radio Free Asia, June 27, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/veteran-06272018083812.html?encoding=simplified

Government Accountability (政府问责)

中纪委曝光：被撤副所长仍主持工作 两领导干部被问责 (Central Commission for Discipline Inspection makes public 7 leading cases of local government lapses)
People's Daily, June 27, 2018
http://politics.people.com.cn/n1/2018/0627/c1001-30091705.html

安徽省政府原秘书长杨敬农受贿1760余万元 获刑10年 (Anhui government official found guilty of corruption, receives 10 years in prison)
Beijing News, June 27, 2018
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2018/06/27/492864.html

Related:
安徽省政府原秘书长杨敬农一审获刑10年(Former Anhui Province secretary gets 10 years for accepting bribes)
Discipline Inspection and Surpervision of Anhui, June 27, 2918
http://www.ahjjjc.gov.cn/ywbb/p/59481.html

陕西：适龄残疾儿童少年招生入学将实行 “全覆盖、零拒绝” (Shaanxi implements “all inclusive, zero rejection” admission policy for disabled children)
Xinhua, June 28, 2018
http://www.xinhuanet.com/2018-06/28/c_129902689.htm

河南省信访局副局长李全胜接受纪律审查和监察调查 (Chief of Henan Bureau of Letters and Calls under investigation for corruption)
Xinhua, June 28, 2018
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/index_article/content/2018-06/28/content_7580785.htm?node=5955

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

快手：永久封禁12个涉“庆阳女孩跳楼遭网络直播”事件账号 (Short video and social network company Kuai Shou permanently shuts down 12 accounts for live streaming suicide incident)
Modern Express, June 26, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2221157

Related:
Chinese teenager’s suicide sparks #MeToo soul-searching, anger at onlookers
Hong Kong Free Press, June 28, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/06/28/chinese-teenagers-suicide-sparks-metoo-soul-searching-anger-onlookers/

China’s social credit system “could interfere in other nations’ sovereignty”
The Guardian, June 27, 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/28/chinas-social-credit-system-could-interfere-in-other-nations-sovereignty

China’s hi-tech police state in fractious Xinjiang a boon for security firms
Agence France-Presse, June 27, 2018
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2152749/chinas-hi-tech-police-state-fractious-xinjiang-boon

Related:
中国高科技公司从新疆监控大获其利 (China's high-tech companies gain huge profits from monitoring in Xinjiang)
Radio Free Asia, June 27, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/shaoshuminzu/wy-06272018104226.html

Huawei wouldn't give Australian users' data to China, says chairman
The Guardian, June 27, 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/27/huawei-wouldnt-give-australian-users-data-to-china-says-chairman

Related:
Huawei chairman slams US lawmaker calls for its US education partnerships to be investigated
South China Morning Post, June 28, 2018
http://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2152846/huawei-chairman-slams-us-lawmaker-calls-its-us-education-partnerships-be

公安部拟将网络分为五个安保等级 严禁泄露个人信息 (Ministry of Public Security proposes 5 levels of protection for personal information online)
Chinanews, June 27, 2018
http://www.chinanews.com/gn/2018/06-27/8548011.shtml

Hong Kong (香港)

Hong Kong civil organization to send observers to monitor police actions during annual July 1 march
Hong Kong Free Press, June 27, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/06/27/hong-kong-civil-organisation-send-observers-monitor-police-actions-annual-july-1-march/

Woman who reportedly asked for students’ details at Tiananmen vigil was plainclothes police officer
Hong Kong Free Press, June 27, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/06/27/woman-reportedly-asked-students-details-tiananmen-vigil-plainclothes-police-officer/

浸大拒撤普通話畢業要求 學生批淡化訴求 (Hong Kong Baptist University refuses to drop Mandarin test as graduation requirement despite students' request)
Inmedia, June 28, 2018
https://www.inmediahk.net/node/1057971

Related:
Baptist University to keep controversial Mandarin graduation requirement, months after test spat
Hong Kong Free Press, June 28, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/06/28/baptist-university-keep-controversial-mandarin-graduation-requirement-months-test-spat/

Library user files legal challenge against Hong Kong libraries’ decision to remove LGBT-themed children’s books
Hong Kong Free Press, June 28, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/06/28/library-user-files-legal-challenge-hong-kong-libraries-decision-remove-lgbt-themed-childrens-books/

Commentary (评论)

Hong Kong: freedoms rapidly deteriorating
香港：自由迅速恶化
Human Rights Watch, June 27, 2018
EN: https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/06/27/hong-kong-freedoms-rapidly-deteriorating
CN: https://www.hrw.org/zh-hans/news/2018/06/27/319712

終審法院本質上是一個政治法庭（文：邵善波） (Shiu Sin-Por: Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal is in its essence a political court)
Mingpao, June 28, 2018
https://news.mingpao.com/ins/instantnews/web_tc/article/20180628/s00022/1530103784301

【專訪】哥大人權學者司馬霑﹕犯法的不是政治人物，而是政府 (Interview with human rights scholar James Seymour: government—not political activists—is the law breaker)
The Stand News, June 28, 2018
https://thestandnews.com/politics/專訪-哥大人權學者司馬霑-犯法的不是政治人物-而是政府/

Access to Justice (司法公正)

黄琦母亲揭露当局罗织“绝密”文件陷害黄琦 (Mother calls “leaking top secrets” charge against rights activist Huang Qi a fabrication)
Radio Free Asia, June 26, 2018
CH: https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/ql2-06262018100133.html
EH: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/fabricated-06262018113212.html

山东首例英烈权益保护公益诉讼案宣判 一网友辱骂烈士被要求在媒体公开道歉 (First conviction in Shandong under Heroes and Martyrs Protection Act )
Beijing News, June 26, 2018
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2018/06/26/492677.html

上访农妇获刑4年 广东高院改判无罪 (Guangdong high court reverses guilty conviction of village petitioner)
Beijing News, June 26, 2018
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2018/06/26/492604.html

Activists who investigated abuse at Chinese suppliers for Ivanka Trump’s brand released from bail terms
South China Morning Post, June 26, 2018
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/2152631/activists-who-investigated-abuse-chinese-suppliers-ivanka-trumps-brand

河南焦作将三万农民转为居民，十多年后才发现引起诉讼 (Henan court hears case of farmland loss by 30,000 peasants who were designated “townspeople” by local government 14 years ago)
Human Rights Defenders，June 26, 2018
https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2018/06/blog-post_711.html

党校教师“颠覆”案当事人子肃坚称无罪 (CPC Party school teacher charged with inciting subversion insists on innocence)
Radio Free Asia, June 26, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/yf2-06262018100327.html

Sexual harassment case aftermath: The depressing tale of Somebody Li from Gansu
SupChina, June 26, 2018
https://supchina.com/2018/06/26/sexual-harassment-case-aftermath-the-depressing-tale-of-somebody-li-from-gansu/

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

维权人士在北京拉横幅要求落实医疗养老平等权利 (In Beijing, rights activists demand medical assistance, care, and equality for the elderly)
Human Rights Defenders, June 26, 2018
https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2018/06/blog-post_52.html

流亡藏人举办“国际反酷刑日”活动 (Group of Tibetan ex-political prisoners celebrates International Day in Support of Victims of Torture in India to pressure Chinese government)
Radio Free Asia, June 26, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/shaoshuminzu/dz-06262018100556.html

刘晓波逝世周年祭日来临 全球纪念会拟在柏林教堂举行 (Berlin church to host commemoration of Liu Xiaobo on first anniversary of his death)
Radio France Internationale, June 26, 2018
http://cn.rfi.fr/中国/20180626-刘晓波逝世周年祭日来临-全球纪念会拟在柏林教堂举行

老兵维权层出不穷 有政治力量背后操纵？(Are political forces behind the waves of veterans’ protest?)
Radio Free Asia, June 26, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/wy-06262018104113.html

Government Accountability (政府问责)

Russia and China see in Trump era a chance to roll back human rights promotion at U.N.
Foreign Policy, June 26, 2018
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/06/26/russia-and-china-see-in-trump-era-a-chance-to-roll-back-human-rights-promotion-at-u-n/

Xinjiang rapidly building crematoria to extinguish Uyghur funeral traditions
Radio Free Asia, June 26, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/crematoriums-06262018151126.html

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

中国监控系统正在走出国门 (Chinese surveillance system on the march abroad)
Voice of America, June 26, 2018
https://www.voachinese.com/a/china-surveillance-system-20180625/4454289.html

CEO of a facial recognition company: The tech is too volatile to give to law enforcement
Quartz, June 27, 2018
https://qz.com/1315034/

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

China reaffirms Taiwan threats following naval mission
Washington Post, June 27, 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-reaffirms-taiwan-threats-following-naval-mission/2018/06/26/9c4eeb1c-79bd-11e8-ac4e-421ef7165923_story.html

Hong Kong (香港)

Foreign judges key to success of Hong Kong’s top court, chief justice says
South China Morning Post, June 26, 2018
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2152512/foreign-judges-key-success-hong-kongs-top

香港“国歌法”将提交立法会 民间团体抗议 (Civil society protests national anthem bill, demanding withdrawal)
Radio Free Asia, June 26, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/gangtai/cp2-06262018103225.html

【六四29】01揭疑似女警蒐學生資料　警方曾拒認　保安局證為警員 (Security Bureau admits sending undercover police to June Fourth Memorial)
HK01, June 27, 2018
https://www.hk01.com/社會新聞/203958/六四29-01揭疑似女警蒐學生資料-警方曾拒認-保安局證為警員

Related:
【六四29】神秘女子收集到場中學生資料　曾進出警察指揮中心 (Suspicious woman collects students’ information at June Fourth Memorial, found to enter police command center)
HK01, June 04, 2018
https://www.hk01.com/社會新聞/195685/六四29-神秘女子收集到場中學生資料-曾進出警察指揮中心