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Message #113218 posted by forged registration (Info) March 11, 2008 17:39:17 ET
In Reply to: China weenieing out! posted by imnother (Info) March 11, 2008 15:36:29 ET
China among world's worst human rights abusers: U.S.
Russia, Pakistan also named in annual report
Last Updated: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 | 2:22 PM ET Comments3Recommend6
The Associated Press
China remains among the world's worst human rights abusers despite rapid economic growth that has transformed large parts of Chinese society, the U.S. State Department said Tuesday in its annual accounting of human rights practices around the world.
Portions of the report were obtained by the Associated Press ahead of its release.
It gives a chilling account of alleged torture in China, including the use of electric shocks, beatings, shackles and other forms of abuse.
The section on China also includes an account of a prisoner strapped to a "tiger bench," a device that forces the legs to bend, sometimes until they break.
It also details the lengths some Chinese officials have taken to enforce China's "one child" policy, and says forced relocations went up last year. The report notes claims that people were forced from their homes to make way for Olympic projects in Beijing.
"The year 2007 saw increased efforts to control and censor the internet, and the government tightened restrictions on freedom of speech and the domestic press," the report says of China.
"The government continued to monitor, harass, detain, arrest and imprison journalists, internet writers and bloggers."
The country-by-country report is compiled separately from U.S. diplomatic efforts, and presented to Congress. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was releasing it at the State Department.
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