China fails on human rights plan: rights group

[cory777]

Source: Associated Press

BEIJING – The continued use of torture, illegal detention, censorship and other offenses means China has failed to deliver on its first human rights action plan, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.

The New York-based rights group evaluated China's official two-year plan that ended last month. It said China's government deserves praise for openly publishing a human rights plan, but said its many failures left it "largely a series of unfulfilled promises."

China's human rights were fully in the spotlight last year when imprisoned author and critic Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Liu's wife, Liu Xia, has been under house arrest and out of contact since shortly after the award was announced in October. Dozens of his supporters were harassed, detained or blocked from leaving China to attend the ceremony in Norway last month.

Among other notable cases of rights abuses was the disappearance of activist lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who emerged briefly last spring and discussed how he was beaten by security agents for hours at a time, before again going missing.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110111/ap_on_re_as/as_china_human_rights

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[iandhr]

1. This is news?

[closeupready]

2. Nobody cares.

They will continue to enjoy global adulation and Most Favored Nation Trading Status. (Sadly, I'd add.)

[neovente]

3. how does...

the USA rank on human rights and who decides?

[David__77]

4. The primary human right is the right to food, health, and shelter.

I would say that China's human rights record is pretty good as far as the developing countries go. It will continue its political and economic development without western interference.

[BOG PERSON]

5. i for one am shocked and appalled that a perceived rival of ours

happens to engage in torture, illegal detention, censorship, and so forth.