China Removed From List of Top Human Rights Violators?

WONG:
China's record on human rights has been the subject of scrutiny in the run-up to the Beijing Olympic Games, which will begin on August 8. But this week, the United States appeared to ease its criticism of China in the State Department's 2007 Human Rights Report.

STORY:
In what human rights and watchdog groups are calling a glaring omission, the U.S. State Department did not include China on its list of the world's worst human rights violators, as it did in previous years.

International watchdog media group Reporters Without Borders had this to say.

[Lucie Morillon, Reporters Without Borders, Washington Director]:
"Reporters Without Borders was very disappointed by the decision of the State Department to remove China from the list of its top violators of human rights. China was in this list in 2006, 2005. There has been no improvement in the situation of human rights and freedom of expression that would justify this decision."

The omission from the list of top violators appears to suggest that the regime has made positive reforms. But Reporters Without Borders says that's simply not the case.

[Lucie Morillon, Reporters Without Borders, Washington Director]
"It's a bad decision, and at a very bad time: just a few months before the Olympic Games, when we need--the international community need--to increase the pressure on China. Doing such a favor to the Chinese government without any concrete achievements in the area of human rights or freedom of expression is a very, very bad decision."

The 2007 State Department report still describes the Chinese regime's record as "poor," and mentioned such abuses as "extrajudicial killings, torture and coerced confessions of prisoners, and the use of forced labor." But it no longer ranks China among the worst rights abusers like North Korea, Iran, Burma, and Zimbabwe.

Historically, the State Departments reports appear to treat countries it wants to maintain friendly relations with... with a softer hand than many human rights groups might. These countries include Pakistan, Egypt, Colombia... and now, apparently, China.

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[scychan01]

Human's Right for the U.S.,.....huh...loook at Iraq,how their troops waterboarded the Iraqis ?? In fact,the U.S.,British,French and other western countries also have bad human right records.

[broshco]

wow she's so pretty!!

[Rockborn]

The USA owes COMMUNIST CHINA big wads of money.

[HagenDasz1123]

I wonder why they don't show the point of view of US state department themselves, and give word to a single bimbo who does not seem to know things she's talking about. And the repulsive pictures are just shown to provoke negative emotional response towards China. This no doubt verifies the highly subjective and biased way that NTDTV is broadcasting the news....

[letsgosee]

what does this have to to with zimbabwe?

maybe you should learn to focus with the group instead of thinking your veiws are

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