From STUFF: New Zealand’s leading news and information website:
China used the global war against terrorism to crack down on peaceful opponents of its rule in Muslim Xinjiang and committed persistent human rights abuses in 2004, the United States state department said today.
China and its neighbours North Korea and Myanmar were the three Asian states highlighted in the annual report of rights records in 196 countries in the past year.
Although incomes and personal freedom expanded rapidly in China, “the government’s human rights record remained poor, and the government continued to commit numerous and serious abuses,” said the report.
