30/04: China Gets Bad Report from Amnesty International
Category: America and the World
Posted by: an okie gardener
Amnesty International condemns human rights abuses in China in a recent report. Excerpt from the news story:
In a report released Monday, the group cataloged a wide range of continuing human rights abuses, including extensive use of detention-without-trial by police, persecution of civil-rights activists, and the use of new methods to rein in the domestic media and censor the Internet.
Amnesty International web site. From the Amnesty press release:
In its latest assessment of China's progress towards its promised human rights improvements ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Amnesty International also found that the Olympics is apparently acting as a catalyst to extend the use of detention without trial, at least in Beijing.
Yes indeed, economic liberalization will lead inevitably to political liberty. Bullfeathers.
In a report released Monday, the group cataloged a wide range of continuing human rights abuses, including extensive use of detention-without-trial by police, persecution of civil-rights activists, and the use of new methods to rein in the domestic media and censor the Internet.
Amnesty International web site. From the Amnesty press release:
In its latest assessment of China's progress towards its promised human rights improvements ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Amnesty International also found that the Olympics is apparently acting as a catalyst to extend the use of detention without trial, at least in Beijing.
Yes indeed, economic liberalization will lead inevitably to political liberty. Bullfeathers.
