Once again, the U.S. State Department has singled China out in their annual human rights report. According to the Washington Post:
China is at the top of a list of countries blocking Internet access, and Russia and Venezuela have shown serious regression in several areas, mainly in centralizing power in the executive branch, according to State Department officials who released the department’s annual human rights report yesterday…
He put China at the top of the list of countries putting restrictions on the Internet. Human rights in China have “deteriorated on a number of areas,” with no action on promised legal reforms or changes in courtroom proceedings, and a continued “system of reeducation through labor.” Thousands of demonstrations in the countryside showed that people were seeking redress and that accountability was still lacking, he added. [Full text]
The full China chapter of the report is here.
