Access to Justice (司法公正)

端点星抗审查 两90后被拘1年 开庭延期 (Authorities again postpone court date for Chen Mei and Cai Wei, volunteers of archive of banned posts and articles about coronavirus who have been held for a year)
Radio France Internationale, April 26, 2021

曾替十二港人案辩护 律师杨晖涉转卖旧书罚款近三十万 (Yang Hui, lawyer who represented the Hong Kong 12, is fined nearly 300,000 yuan for selling used books online)
Radio Free Asia, April 27, 2021

China to put former top anti-corruption inspector on trial for graft
South China Morning Post, April 27, 2021

Government Accountability (政府问责)

A Graying China May Have to Put Off Retirement. Workers Aren’t Happy.
中国推“延迟退休”应对老龄化，引发争议和反弹
The New York Times, April 27, 2021

中国公布《反间谍安全防范工作规定》 (China publishes Provisions on Efforts on Counter-Espionage and Security Precautions)
Deutsche Welle, April 27, 2021

Related:
国家安全部公布2021年第1号令《反间谍安全防范工作规定》 (Ministry of State Security publishes Order 2021.1: Provisions on Efforts on Counter-Espionage and Security Precautions)
People's Daily, April 26, 2021

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

国家立法拟为超级平台增设外部独立机构，监督个人信息处理 (China to draft regulation requiring big tech firms to hire independent monitors of their management of personal information)
Jiemian, April 26, 2021

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App处理个人信息乱象丛生，三部门拟出新规消除监管真空 (New draft regulation to eliminate unlawful personal information gathering is accepting public comments until May 26)
Jiemian, April 27, 2021

How one man’s dream to rival Google’s AI chief reflects China’s quest for tech supremacy
South China Morning Post, April 27, 2021

Chinese Smart TV-Maker Accused of Spying on Owners' Other Devices
Radio Free Asia, April 27, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

Hong Kong mass protest organiser Civil Human Rights Front facing police probe over its operations
South China Morning Post, April 26, 2021

Related:
Hong Kong civil rights group unlikely to survive police investigation into funding, activities, analysts say
South China Morning Post, April 27, 2021

Taiwan Church Website Blocked by Hong Kong National Security Police
Radio Free Asia, April 26, 2021

Hong Kong leader issues warning to territory’s top legal body
Al Jazeera & Reuters, April 27, 2021

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Hong Kong protests: justice secretary says freedoms are no cover for breaking the law as she defends jailing of Jimmy Lai and others
South China Morning Post, April 26, 2021

Hong Kong’s Carrie Lam to host RTHK show aired 4 times a day, as embattled broadcaster axes other shows
Hong Kong Free Press, April 27, 2021

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RTHK assistant director becomes at least sixth senior employee to quit Hong Kong public broadcaster since new boss took charge
South China Morning Post, April 27, 2021

National security clampdown casts shadow over Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen Massacre vigil
Hong Kong Free Press, April 27, 2021

No questions on rule of law or politics in this year’s liberal studies paper at Hong Kong’s DSE exams, teachers say
South China Morning Post, April 27, 2021

彭博：香港今年逾1.6万家庭移英(Bloomberg: Over 16,000 Hong Kong households moving to UK this year)
Radio Free Asia, April 27, 2021

Related:
Hongkongers Moving to U.K. May Sell $19 Billion of Homes
Bloomberg, April 27, 2021

【公務員宣誓】聶德權：129 公務員拒簽聲明　25 人自行辭職　其餘將被要求離職(Of 129 civil servants who refused to take loyalty oath, 25 quit and rest will be asked to leave)
Stand News, April 27, 2021

Commentary (评论)

互联网巨头的“边界” (The “boundary” of big tech companies)
Financial Times, April 26, 2021

Xinjiang (新疆)

Xinjiang cotton: why it is so hard to find out the truth about forced labour claims
South China Morning Post, April 25, 2021

新疆10年 加拿大夫妇：那里像个巨大监狱(Canadian couple who left Xinjiang after a decade: It’s like a huge prison there)
Radio France Internationale, April 25, 2021

Taiwan (台湾)

Taiwan Security Officials Propose Ban on Chinese Flag
The Diplomat, April 24, 2021

Access to Information (公众知情权)

China Censors Chloé Zhao’s Oscar Win, but Fans Find Ways to Rejoice
The New York Times, April 26, 2021

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奥斯卡最佳导演赵婷：从曾经的“中国骄傲”，到如今全网删帖(Oscar’s best director Chloé Zhao—once the "pride of China," now censored on Internet)
British Broadcasting Corporation, April 26, 2021

Women Are Battling China’s Angry Trolls. The Trolls Are Winning.
女权人士在中国互联网上遭遇封禁和攻击
The New York Times, April 26, 2021

美国笔会：中国文字狱层出不穷 是全球关押最多作家的国家(PEN America: Criminalizing expression, China is world’s top jailer of writers)
Voice of America, April 24, 2021

Related:
Freedom to Write Index 2020
PEN America, April 23, 2021

Access to Justice (司法公正)

China Reveals Charges Against Outspoken Business Sun Dawu
The New York Times, April 24, 2021

新疆维权人士姜志林狱中服刑 已失去说话能力(Jiang Zhilin, human rights activist imprisoned in Xinjiang, has lost ability to speak)
Radio Free Asia, April 26, 2021

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

New Chinese Decree Tells Religious Leaders to ‘Support the Communist Party’
Voice of America, April 24, 2021

Government Accountability (政府问责)

与中国有关谍案不断 又一俄科学家被判重刑(In continuing exposé of China-related espionage cases, another Russian scientist gets harsh sentence)
Voice of America, April 25, 2021

2020年中国基督徒惨遭迫害，从教堂到墓地 从生者到逝者(Persecution of Chinese Christians in 2020: From church to cemetery and the living to the dead)
Voice of America, April 24, 2021

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

UK's GCHQ spy chief says China could win control of the world's 'operating system'
Reuters, April 23, 2021

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英情报高官：中国是特别威胁 西方或面临“清算时刻”(British intelligence official: China a special threat; the West may face "moment of reckoning")
Deutsche Welle, April 24, 2021

Director’s 2021 Vincent Briscoe Lecture
UK Government Communications Headquarters, April 23, 2021

Meituan becomes second Chinese tech giant to be hit with antitrust probe
Financial Times, April 26, 2021

Chinese regulators tighten grip on live-streaming e-commerce, intensifying scrutiny on tech
South China Morning Post, April 24, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

Hong Kong court rejects activist’s attempt to quash colonial-era sedition charges on constitutional grounds
South China Morning Post, April 26, 2021

Related:
Hong Kong protests: defendant accused of defacing Chinese flag and starting street fire ‘confessed to offences involuntarily’
South China Morning Post, April 26, 2021

Who defines ‘fake news’ in Hong Kong, and is a law needed? Calls for legislation spark fears of curbs on media, critics
South China Morning Post, April 24, 2021

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‘Know your place’: Beijing accuses Hong Kong press club of being ‘external force’ interfering in China’s internal affairs
Hong Kong Free Press, April 26, 2021

Fear Grips Hong Kong’s Public Broadcaster
Voice of America, April 23, 2021

港台證實助理廣播處長周國豐 7 月 9 日離任　李百全上任後至少 5 管理層請辭(RTHK assistant director Brian Chow Kwok-fung resigns; at least five from management have quit since new head took office)
Stand News, April 26, 2021

Beijing attacks head of Hong Kong Bar Assoc. over ‘politicised’ comments on peaceful protest
Hong Kong Free Press, April 26, 2021

Watch what you say: Hong Kong civil servants become wary of office snitches jostling to prove loyalty
South China Morning Post, April 25, 2021

Uni activist flees amid arrest fears
The Standard, April 26, 2021

民陣被指涉違社團條例　警方要求交代收入來源等資料(Civil Human Rights Front accused of breaching Societies Ordinance; police demand income sources and related information)
Radio Television Hong Kong, April 26, 2021

【DSE】通識倒數三屆考試　卷一必答題無時事政治題　去年觸及新聞自由、國家安全兩難 (This year’s Liberal Studies exam steers clear of current affairs and politics; last year’s questions touched on press freedom and national security)
Stand News, April 26, 2021

Commentary (评论)

Changes to Hong Kong’s electoral system remain a hard sell
South China Morning Post, April 25, 2021

Beacon of press freedom must not be allowed to dim
South China Morning Post, April 25, 2021

From Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping
从毛泽东到习近平
The New York Times, April 26, 2021

Xinjiang (新疆)

UK MPs declare China is committing genocide against Uyghurs in Xinjiang
The Guardian, April 22, 2021

Related:
China hits out at British parliament after it declares Xinjiang’s Uygurs are subject to genocide
South China Morning Post, April 23, 2021

Heretic, separatist, traitor: Uyghur activist Halmurat Harri’s in-between life
SupChina, April 22, 2021

北京再发起新疆大外宣 意图指控海外维族人散播谣言(Beijing renews large-scale external propaganda on Xinjiang, aimed at accusing overseas Uyghurs of spreading rumors)
Deutsche Welle, April 23, 2021

Access to Justice (司法公正)

Police in China's Chengdu Detain Children in Early Rain Church Raid
Radio Free Asia, April 22, 2021

欧洲律师协会致函习近平呼吁释放陕西律师常玮平(In letter to Xi Jinping, European Bar Ass’n urges release of Shaanxi lawyer Chang Weiping)
Radio France Internationale, April 22, 2021

Access to Information (公众知情权)

奥斯卡：示威纪录片《不割席》入围，香港不播颁奖仪式(Documentary film “Do Not Split” on Hong Kong protests is nominated for Oscar; TVB will not broadcast award ceremony)
British Broadcasting Corporation, April 23, 2021

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

快讯：“恶俗维基” 牛腾宇案二审维持原判 律师、家长被禁止出庭(Lawyers and mother are barred from second instance trial of EsuWiki webmaster Niu Tengyu; court upholds original sentence of 14 years in prison)
Radio Free Asia, April 23, 2021

China’s central bank fights Jack Ma’s Ant Group over control of data
Financial Times, April 23, 2021

Jack Ma Shows Why China’s Tycoons Keep Quiet
“消失”的马云给中国富豪带来的启示
The New York Times, April 22, 2021

UK's GCHQ spy chief says China could win control of the world's 'operating system'
Reuters, April 23, 2021

中国IPv6地址数量超美国 专家将来一人一IP 监控更容易(Number of IPv6 addresses in China exceeds that in U.S.; experts say in future one person, one IP will make monitoring easier)
Radio France Internationale, April 23, 2021

FCC下令美国广播机构识别外国政府资助的节目 中俄遭点名(FCC orders U.S. broadcasters to identify foreign government-funded programs; China and Russia are named)
Radio Free Asia, April 23, 2021

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FCC orders U.S. broadcasters to identify foreign-government sponsors of programs
Reuters, April 22, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

‘Still a man of interest to foreign powers’: Judiciary reveals why Hong Kong democrat was denied bail under security law
Hong Kong Free Press, April 23, 2021

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National security law: US defends diplomats in Hong Kong after judge says invitations from consulate led her to revoke ex-lawmaker’s bail
South China Morning Post, April 23, 2021

Election revamp: Urging people not to vote or spoil ballots may be criminalised, even without proof of intent to sabotage poll
Hong Kong Free Press, April 23, 2021

Hong Kong magistrate’s suggestion for database-searching journalists ‘unworkable’, as critics question RTHK contributor’s conviction
South China Morning Post, April 23, 2021

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Hong Kong press club urges police chief to clarify comments about action against ‘fake news’
Hong Kong Free Press, April 23, 2021

Will national security law force exodus of Hong Kong’s teachers, students over fears of shrinking academic freedom?
South China Morning Post, April 23, 2021

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Older Hong Kong students to learn about national security when studying range of subjects, including accounting, chemistry and even physics
South China Morning Post, April 22, 2021

香港國家安全教育課程框架(Hong Kong national security education framework)
Education Bureau, April 23, 2021

職工盟：有公務員沒交簽署聲明遭停職　未能返辦公室取門匙露宿街頭　環保署：提出代取被拒(30-year veteran civil servant is suspended for not signing loyalty oath and barred from retrieving house keys from office; spent several nights in street)
Ming Pao, April 23, 2021

區諾軒原被判社會服務令律政司覆核　法庭改判囚9星期(On appeal by Dep’t of Justice, court increases sentence for pro-democracy ex-lawmaker Au Lok-hin to 9 weeks in jail)
Radio Television Hong Kong, April 23, 2021

「香港民族陣綫」盧溢燊管有炸藥　判囚12年(Member of Hong Kong National Front Lo Yat Sun jailed for 12 years for possessing explosives)
Radio Television Hong Kong, April 23, 2021

Related:
Hong Kong protests: pro-independence group member jailed for 12 years over explosives find wanted to ‘create terror’ in city, judge says
South China Morning Post, April 23, 2021

China's national security office to open permanent base in Hong Kong
Reuters, April 23, 2021

Commentary (评论)

The Rollback of Autonomy, Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Hong Kong
Centre for International Policy Studies, April 12, 2021