Posted on 08/03/2013 8:55:10 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Beijing says the human rights situation in China is at a historic best, rejecting comments from a senior U.S. diplomat that the rights situation is deteriorating in China, with relatives of activists increasingly being harassed and policies in ethnic areas becoming more repressive.
In a statement issued late Friday, China’s Foreign Ministry said that the Chinese are enjoying unprecedented rights, but added those rights must be exercised within China’s law. …
Rights watchers have been alarmed by the targeting of relatives of high-profile dissidents, including blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, who exposed abuses in the enforcement of China’s one-child policies, and Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, imprisoned since 2009 on subversion charges after he campaigned for peaceful democratic change in China. …
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LOL
that speaks volumes
Yeah, the bar is not very high if that is the standard.
They have human rites, such as when in the “re-education camps” (not treated as violative of anything by our DOS, which because they are not called prisons does not report on them) they kill victims for their organs. This particular rite does seem to be at a historical high point as during the great leap forward they resorted to cannabilism rather than the rite of harvesting organs for export.
I didn’t know Jay Carney moonlights for the PRC.
Only 1-2 million people are suppressed each year -— out of 1.4 Billion -— Not bad
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