April 12, 2011

Top news
Human Rights Defender – Ai Weiwei (艾未未)
Absolute Power
South China Morning Post, April 12, 2011
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=9bc5aa5a3744f210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

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Ai Weiwei: Captive Poster Boy for China's Criminal Justice System
US-Asia Law Institute, April 11, 2011
http://www.usasialaw.org/?p=5361

艾未未被拘九天仍无音讯 官媒左网连番抹黑抨击 (Still No News of Ai Weiwei; His Cousin, Driver Also Disappear)
Radio Free Asia, April 11, 2011
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/ai-04112011111949.html

艾未未妻子到稅務局助查 (Ai Weiwei's Wife Called to Tax Bureau for Questioning)
Agencies, April 12, 2011
http://inews.mingpao.com/htm/INews/20110412/ca21122p.htm

News
Government
Election Text Messages Cost City Mayor His Job
Shanghai Daily, April 12, 2011
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=468638

Hukou
多城市以居住证取代暂住证打破户籍束缚 (Breaking Hukou Bondage, Several Cities Replace Temporary Residence Permits)
Xinhua News Agency, April 12, 2011
http://news.eastday.com/c/20110412/u1a5835235.html

Labor
14 Hospitalized after Industrial Gas Leak in Shaoxing
Xinhua News Agency, April 11, 2011
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=468574

Land Policy
嘉峪关市推行房屋拆迁诉求制 (Gansu City Consults Residents Prior to Demolition Projects to Decrease Petitioning)
Gansu Daily, April 11, 2011
http://www.chinanews.com/estate/2011/04-11/2963051.shtml

Protests and Petitions
浙江网友郭卫东获释 朱虞夫逾期拘押 (1 Jasmine Activist Released, Others Still Missing)
Radio Free Asia, April 11, 2011
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/guo-04112011094740.html

Religion
China Ordains New Vatican-approved Catholic Bishop
Associated Press, April 11, 2011
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110411/ap_on_re_as/as_china_vatican

Pastor Still Held after Crackdown
South China Morning Post, April 12, 2011
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=f23c06e19f44f210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Related news:
Beijing Church Standoff Unresolved, Pastor Held
Deutsche Presse-Agentur, April 11, 2011
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/article_1632129.php/Beijing-church-standoff-unresolved-pastor-held

Tibet
川格德寺外逾千武警切断供给 两千僧侣缺少食物情况危急 (Over 1,000 Armed Police Block Food Supply to Sichuan Temple)
Radio Free Asia, April 11, 2011
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/zang-04112011094808.html

XUAR
Petitioners Return to Beijing
Radio Free Asia, April 11, 2011
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/return-04112011174717.html