The HRIC Daily Brief is a daily selection of news stories and commentary related to human rights in China, drawn from Chinese- and English-language news and online media sources that we monitor daily. In addition to headlines and source links, HRIC also provides English translation of Chinese headlines.

Monday, May 12, 2014

Human Rights Defenders (人权卫士)

Chinese elite push for release of jailed Nobel laureate
Reuters, May 11, 2014
www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/11/us-china-dissident-idUSBREA4A01120140511

Related:
中国有“太子党”私下向高层建言:假释刘晓波 (China's princelings discretely push for release of Liu Xiaobo)
Radio Free Asia, May 11, 2014
www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/sd-05112014132846.html

港团体中联办外抗议促释放近期被捕人士 (HK groups hold protest to call for release of activists detained in recent weeks)
Voice of America, May 11, 2014
www.voachinese.com/content/hk-group-protest-20140511/1912106.html

Communist Party newspaper denounces detained lawyer
《环球时报》称人权律师触犯“法律红线”
The New York Times, May 12, 2014
http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20140512/c12lawyer/dual/