Human rights in China: Broken promises

A new report by Amnesty international confirms that the Chinese authorities “failed to fulfil their own commitments to improve human rights”:

With the Olympics less than two weeks away, it is time to assess progress made by the Chinese authorities to improve human rights in line with their own commitments made in 2001. This report provides a final summary and updates developments in these four key areas which are: the continuing use of the death penalty; abusive forms of administrative detention; the arbitrary detention, imprisonment, ill-treatment and harassment of human rights defenders, including journalists and lawyers; and the censorship of the internet.

Read the complete report here (English, Spanish, Russian).

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