Access to Justice (司法公正)

新疆大规模转移穆斯林 集中营迁甘肃 (More than 200,000 Uyghurs, other ethnic minorities moved in large-scale relocations as new camps are built in Gansu)
Radio Free Asia, October 1, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/shaoshuminzu/ql1-10012018100157.html

Tibetan villagers forced from their homes in Chamdo’s Gonjo County
Radio Free Asia, October 1, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/villagers-10012018151232.html

Female Christians tortured for hosting Sunday school
Bitter Winter, September 30, 2018
https://bitterwinter.org/christians-tortured-for-hosting-sunday-school/

Access to Information (信息公开)

Chinese journalist arrested after slapping volunteer at British conference on Hong Kong freedoms and labelling participants traitors
South China Morning Post, October 1, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2166455/chinese-journalist-slaps-volunteer-british-conference-hong

说不得碰不得 “英烈”也有禁区？(Has new law turned heroes and martyrs into a new forbidden zone for humor?)
Radio Free Asia, September 28, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/kejiaowen/yf2-09282018093822.html

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

上海民主维权人士季孝龙因“厕所革命”被正式批捕 (Shanghai activists arrested for anti-CPC graffiti in toilet stalls)
China Human Rights Defenders, October 1, 2018
http://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2018/10/blog-post.html

China’s young Communists pose new challenge
China Digital Times, October 1, 2018
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2018/10/chinas-young-communists-pose-new-challenge/

Teacher’s lawsuit renews push for LGBT rights
China Digital Times, October 1, 2018
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2018/10/teachers-lawsuit-renews-push-for-lgbt-rights/

Journalist at Guangming Daily accused of sexual misconduct by former intern
SupChina, October 1, 2018
https://supchina.com/2018/10/01/journalist-at-guangming-daily-accused-of-sexual-misconduct/

Government Accountability (政府问责)

科網巨企也姓黨　騰訊擁逾萬黨員 (Tech giants, get behind CPC too: Party members make up 80% of Tencent’s security department, out of 10,000+ company-wide)
The Stand News, October 2, 2018
https://thestandnews.com/finance/科網巨企也姓黨-騰訊擁逾萬黨員/

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

China’s data privacy outcry fuels case for tighter rules
Financial Times, October 2, 2018
https://www.ft.com/content/fdeaf22a-c09a-11e8-95b1-d36dfef1b89a

Hong Kong (香港)

阻港獨遊行人士進入公民廣場　林鄭：理所當然 (Carrie Lam says blocking pro-independence banners from “Civic Square” is a matter of course)
The Stand News, October 2, 2018
https://thestandnews.com/politics/阻港獨遊行人士進入公民廣場-林鄭-理所當然/

Commentary (评论)

How an activist's secret SOS helped end China's labour camp system
Huffington Post, October 1, 2018
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/caylan-ford/china-labour-camp-masanjia-sun-yi_a_23546741/

China’s global propaganda is aimed at bosses, not foreigners
Foreign Policy, October 1, 2018
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/01/chinas-global-propaganda-is-aimed-at-bosses-not-foreigners/

Book excerpt: For generations of P.R.C. leaders, a world “alive with danger”
ChinaFile, September 30, 2018
http://www.chinafile.com/library/excerpts/generations-of-prc-leaders-world-alive-danger

Access to Justice (司法公正)

Two Chinese asylum-seekers stranded in Taiwan’s airport after claim
Radio Free Asia, October 1, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/stranded-10012018111006.html

Prominent Uyghur intellectual given two-year suspended death sentence for “separatism”
Radio Free Asia, September 28, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/sentence-09282018145150.html

China school sued by fired gay teacher in potential landmark case
Reuters, September 28, 2018
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-lgbt-law/china-school-sued-by-fired-gay-teacher-in-potential-landmark-case-idUSKCN1M819C

Access to Information (信息公开)

China censors bad economic news amid signs of slower growth
The New York Times, September 28, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/business/china-censor-economic-news.html

Related:
Chinese economy powering ahead
Xinhua English, October 1, 2018
http://english.sina.com/buz/f/2018-10-01/detail-ihkvrhpr9164631.shtml

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

China’s leaders confront an unlikely foe: Ardent young communists
The New York Times, September 28, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/world/asia/china-maoists-xi-protests.html

Government Accountability (政府问责)

Evidence indicates China set to target US elections
Voice of America, October 1, 2018
https://www.voanews.com/a/evidence-shows-china-prepared-to-target-us-elections/4592103.html

Related:
U.S. ambassador accuses China of “bullying” with “propaganda ads”
Reuters, September 30, 2018
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-diplomacy/u-s-ambassador-accuses-china-of-bullying-with-propaganda-ads-idUSKCN1MA0HW

China’s Uyghur crackdown goes global
The Diplomat, October 1, 2018
https://thediplomat.com/2018/09/chinas-uyghur-crackdown-goes-global/

China’s health care crisis: Lines before dawn, violence, and “no trust”
The New York Times, September 30, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/30/business/china-health-care-doctors.html

China’s provinces are secretly building coal plants in defiance of the national government
Quartz, September 30, 2018
https://qz.com/1404934/chinas-provinces-are-secretly-building-coal-plants-in-defiance-of-the-national-government/

Ex-Chinese securities regulator vice chairman sentenced to 18 years in prison–local court statement
Reuters, September 28, 2018
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-corruption/ex-chinese-securities-regulator-vice-chairman-sentenced-to-18-years-in-prison-local-court-statement-idUSKCN1M80S3

Uyghur editor of state-run magazine commits suicide “out of fear” of detention
Radio Free Asia, September 28, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/suicide-09282018171559.html

“We are scared, but we have Jesus”: China and its war on Christianity
The Guardian, September 28, 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/28/we-are-scared-but-we-have-jesus-china-and-its-war-on-christianity

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

China eyes anti-terror force to protect overseas interests
Reuters, September 29, 2018
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-defence-security/china-eyes-anti-terror-force-to-protect-overseas-interests-idUSKCN1M909U

Hong Kong (香港)

Hong Kong protesters channel Catalan spirit as they march for independence while testing limits of ban that saw separatist party in the city outlawed
South China Morning Post, October 1, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2166460/organised-crime-unit-hong-kong-turns-its-attention-and

Related:
“We won’t be compromised and won’t be silent”: Hongkongers rally against China on National Day
Agence France-Presse, October 1, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/10/01/wont-compromised-wont-silent-hongkongers-rally-china-national-day/

CCTV reporter taken away by police after screaming and slapping at UK conference on Hong Kong autonomy
What’s On Weibo, October 1, 2018
https://www.whatsonweibo.com/chinese-cctv-reporter-taken-away-by-police-after-screaming-and-slapping-at-uk-conference-on-hong-kong-autonomy/

Localist group Demosisto should be outlawed like Hong Kong National Party for its self-determination calls, Beijing adviser Priscilla Leung says
South China Morning Post, September 30, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2166376/demosisto-should-be-outlawed-hong-kong-national-party-its

University students in Hong Kong ignore warning to remove pro-independence messages from campus “democracy wall”
South China Morning Post, September 28, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2166249/university-students-hong-kong-ignore-warning-remove-pro

Occupy protesters return to scene in their hundreds to mark fourth anniversary of Hong Kong pro-democracy movement
South China Morning Post, September 28, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2166269/occupy-protesters-return-scene-their-hundreds-mark-fourth

Activist Joshua Wong banned from travel, four years after democracy movement began
Radio Free Asia, September 28, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/ban-09282018105520.html

Commentary (评论)

China Uighurs: All you need to know on Muslim “crackdown”
BBC News, October 1, 2018
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-45474279

Signs of China (3)
ChinaChange, September 30, 2018
https://chinachange.org/2018/09/30/signs-of-china-3/

For Xi Jinping, being a man of the people means looking the part
The New York Times, September 28, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/world/asia/xi-jinping-china-propaganda.html

Access to Justice (司法公正)

Chinese court hands suspended death sentence to evictee who killed official
Radio Free Asia, September 27, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/evictee-09272018133748.html

第十三届中国法学家论坛在京举办 (China Law Society 13th annual forum: Legal scholars to step up jurisprudence studies to serve Party , state)
Legal Daily, September 27, 2018
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/index_article/content/2018-09/27/content_7655251.htm?node=5955

China #MeToo: Why one woman is being sued by the TV star she accused
BBC, September 27, 2018
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-45636196

Access to Information (信息公开)

叶挺后人诉“暴走漫画”案今宣判，西安摩摩公司被判公开道歉 (Production company sanctioned with public apology, RMB 100,000 compensation to plaintiff over parody video in heroes and martyrs protection law case)
The Paper, September 28, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2482893

Hong Kong universities tell students to remove independence banners, as top China diplomat says city’s young need enhanced education on mainland culture
South China Morning Post, September 27, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2165944/hong-kong-students-prepare-showdown-university-management

Related:
理大民主牆變身連儂牆 校方命還原否則沒收 學生會斥打壓 (Polytechnic University orders “Lennon wall” with pro-independence messages removed)
Inmediahk.net, September 27, 2018
https://www.inmediahk.net/node/1059692

Phoenix News site suspended for “illegal” coverage
China Digital Times, September 27, 2018
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2018/09/phoenix-news-site-suspended-for-illegal-coverage/

Changing place names to “better reflect Chinese culture” in Ningxia, and “wonderful” Xinjiang
SupChina, September 27, 2018
https://supchina.com/2018/09/27/changing-place-names-to-better-reflect-chinese-culture-in-ningxia-and-wonderful-xinjiang/

Is Chinese propaganda infiltrating the German media?
Deutsche Welle, September 27, 2018
https://www.dw.com/en/is-chinese-propaganda-infiltrating-the-german-media/a-45664385

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

Trump’s trade war may have helped Liu Xia win her freedom, Chinese dissident Liao Yiwu says
South China Morning Post, September 28, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2166089/praise-trump-chinese-dissident-liao-yiwu

Liu Xia talks about Liu Xiaobo, thanks supporters for their concern at New York human rights event
South China Morning Post, September 27, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2165972/liu-xia-talks-about-liu-xiaobo-thanks-supporters-their-concern

Related:
Liu Xia “under pressure” during first public appearance since her exile
Radio Free Asia, September 27, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/pressure-09272018165422.html

Interview: “We are left wandering in fear in a foreign land”
Radio Free Asia, September 27, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/businessmen-09272018171953.html

China’s Muslim detention camps spark protests in Islamic world
The Wall Street Journal, September 27, 2018
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-detentions-of-muslims-trigger-protests-in-islamic-world-1538040605

Creating a model for the resolution of collective labour disputes
China Labour Bulletin, September 27, 2018
https://www.clb.org.hk/content/creating-model-resolution-collective-labour-disputes

Government Accountability (政府问责)

China says Rohingya issue should not be “internationalized”
Reuters, September 28, 2018
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-china/china-says-rohingya-issue-should-not-be-internationalized-idUSKCN1M8062

Is China really interfering in the U.S. elections?
The Diplomat, September 28, 2018
https://thediplomat.com/2018/09/is-china-really-interfering-in-the-us-elections/

Chinese embassy rejects second Swedish apology for satire on tourists
South China Morning Post, September 27, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2165938/chinese-embassy-rejects-second-swedish-apology-satire-tourists

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

U.S. to counter Chinese internet bid in Papua New Guinea: Diplomat
Reuters, September 28, 2018
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pacific-debt-huawei-tech/u-s-to-counter-chinese-internet-bid-in-papua-new-guinea-diplomat-idUSKCN1M800X

哥俩好：俄监控系统购自中国 (Russia to import China’s surveillance tech, including facial recognition, biometric identification)
Radio Free Asia, September 27, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/junshiwaijiao/lxy-09272018095041.html

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

Taiwan moves ahead with crackdown on illegal funds from mainland China
Radio Free Asia, September 27, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/funds-09272018115813.html