11.03.2008 - Source: US Department of State

Government's human rights record remained poor and deteriorated in certain areas ("Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2007") [ID 22754]

"The government's human rights record remained poor, and controls were tightened in some areas, such as religious freedom in Tibetan areas and in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR); freedom of speech and the media, including the Internet; and the treatment of petitioners in Beijing. As in previous years, citizens did not have the right to change their government. The government tightened restrictions on freedom of speech and the press, particularly in anticipation of and during sensitive events, including increased efforts to control and censor the Internet. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), both local and international, continued to face intense scrutiny and restrictions. The government continued its severe cultural and religious repression of minorities, with some tightening of control in the XUAR, and an increased level of religious repression in Tibetan areas. The government stepped up efforts to rid Beijing of petitioners seeking redress for various grievances. Other serious human rights abuses included extrajudicial killings, torture and coerced confessions of prisoners, and the use of forced labor, including prison labor. The government continued to monitor, harass, detain, arrest, and imprison journalists, writers, activists, and defense lawyers and their families, many of whom were seeking to exercise their rights under law. The party and state exercised strict political control of courts and judges, conducted closed trials and carried out administrative detention. Executions often took place on the day of conviction or immediately after the denial of an appeal. A lack of due process and restrictions on lawyers further limited progress toward rule of law. Individuals and groups, especially those deemed politically sensitive by the government, continued to face tight restrictions on their freedom to assemble, their freedom to practice religion, and their freedom to travel. The government continued its coercive birth limitation policy, in some cases resulting in forced abortion and sterilization."

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06.03.2007 - Source: US Department of State

Government's human rights record remained poor; in certain areas deteriorated ("Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2006") [ID 18955]

"Although the constitution asserts that "the state respects and preserves human rights," the government's human rights record remained poor, and in certain areas deteriorated. There were an increased number of high-profile cases involving the monitoring, harassment, detention, arrest, and imprisonment of journalists, writers, activists, and defense lawyers, many of whom were seeking to exercise their rights under law. The government tightened restrictions on freedom of speech and the press, including stricter control and censorship of the Internet. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), both local and international, continued to face increased scrutiny and restrictions. As in previous years, citizens did not have the right to change their government. Other serious human rights abuses included instances of extrajudicial killings; torture and coerced confessions of prisoners; and the use of forced labor, including prison labor. Legal reforms continued to stall, as the party and state exercised strict political control of courts and judges, and maintained closed trials and administrative detention. Executions often took place on the day of conviction or immediately after the denial of an appeal. A lack of due process and new restrictions on lawyers further limited progress toward rule of law. Individuals and groups, especially those considered politically sensitive, continued to face tight restrictions on their freedom to assemble; their freedom to practice religion, including strengthened enforcement of religious affairs regulations implemented in 2005; and their freedom to travel. The government continued its coercive birth limitation policy, in some cases resulting in forced abortion and sterilization.The government failed to adequately protect refugees, and the forced repatriation of North Koreans continued to be a grave problem. Serious social conditions that affected human rights included endemic corruption, trafficking in persons, and discrimination against women, minorities, and persons with disabilities. The government continued its severe cultural and religious repression of minorities in Tibetan areas and Xinjiang; in Xinjiang, trials and executions of Uighurs charged with separatism continued.The government continued to pursue some criminal and judicial reforms. China's highest court, the Supreme People's Court (SPC), began implementing new appellate procedures for hearing death penalty cases and took concrete steps towards reclaiming the death penalty review power from provincial courts. In July the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) issued new regulations that detail criteria for prosecuting official abuses of power, and clarified that police are accountable when they use torture to coerce confessions."

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06.03.2007 - Source: US Department of State

Government seeks to maintain control over civil society groups ("Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2006") [ID 19153]

"The government sought to maintain control over civil society groups, halt the emergence of independent NGOs, and prevent what they have called the "westernization" of China. The government did not permit independent domestic NGOs to monitor openly or to comment on human rights conditions; existing domestic NGOs were harassed. The government tended to be suspicious of independent organizations and increased scrutiny of NGOs with links overseas. Most large NGOs were quasi-governmental in nature, and all NGOs had to be sponsored by government agencies (see section 2.b.).

During the year the government continued its intensified efforts to monitor and control NGOs and used strict regulations to limit the growth of independent civil society, which were first implemented in 2005.

An informal network of activists around the country continued to serve as a credible source of information about many human rights violations. The information was disseminated through organizations such as the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China and the New York-based Human Rights in China.

When permitted by authorities, the press reported about officials who exceeded their authority and infringed on citizens' rights. However, the government remained reluctant to accept criticism of its human rights record by other nations or international organizations. It criticized reports by international human rights monitoring groups, claiming that such reports were inaccurate and interfered with the country's internal affairs. Representatives of some international human rights organizations reported that authorities denied their visa requests or restricted the length of visas issued to them (see section 2.d.). The government-established China Society for Human Rights is an NGO whose mandate was to defend the government's human rights record. The government maintained that each country's economic, social, cultural and historical conditions influence its approach to human rights.

The government permitted the ICRC to open an office in Beijing, although it did not authorize the ICRC to visit prisons. The government submitted to the UN its first compliance report on the International Covenant on Economic, Cultural and Social Rights. The government continued unofficial discussions on human rights and prisoner issues with a San Francisco-based human rights group, although the government's cooperation with the group was not as extensive as in previous years."

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01.2007 - Source: Human Rights Watch

Human rights conditions deteriorated in 2006 ("World Report 2007") [ID 18558]

"Human rights conditions in China deteriorated significantly in 2006. Authorities greeted rising social unrest—marked at times by violent confrontation between protesters and police—with stricter controls on the press, internet, academics, lawyers, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).

Several high-profile, politically-motivated prosecutions of lawyers and journalists in 2006 put an end to any hopes that President Hu Jintao would be a progressive reformer and sent an unambiguous warning to individuals and groups pressing for greater respect for the fundamental rights and freedoms of Chinese citizens. Domestic observers believe that these constraints will remain in place at least through the 2008 summer Olympics being hosted by Beijing."

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01.2007 - Source: Human Rights Watch

Layers of control ("World Report 2007") [ID 18559]

"The Chinese government continues to use a vast police and state security apparatus to enforce multiple layers of controls on critics, protesters, and civil society activists. Such controls make actual arrests—which draw unwanted international attention— less necessary in silencing critics.

The system includes administrative and professional pressures, restrictions on domestic and foreign movements, covert or overt tapping and surveillance of phone and internet communications, visits and summons by the police, close surveillance by plainclothes agents, unofficial house-arrests, incommunicado confinement in distant police-run guest houses, and custody in police stations. Many are charged with vaguely defined crimes such as “disrupting social order,” “leaking state secrets,” or “inciting subversion.”

Some 100 activists, lawyers, writers, academics, HIV/AIDS campaigners, and human rights defenders were subject to such treatment in 2006, indicating a new crackdown."

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01.10.2006 - Source: Hanns Seidel Stiftung

Monthly report on recent developments (September 2006) ("China Monatsbericht September 2006") [ID 17901]

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10.2006 - Source: Congressional-Executive Commission on China

Monthly update on human rights and rule of law (October 2006) ("China Human Rights and Rule of Law Update (October 2006)") [ID 17902]

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30.09.2006 - Source: Human Rights in China

Monthly update on death penalty, labour, media censorship, petitions, protests and human rights defenders ("Monthly Brief; September 2006") [ID 17903]

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21.09.2006 - Source: Amnesty International

Report on human rights violations (death penalty; re-education through labour; arbitrary detention, torture and harassment of human rights defenders; media freedom) ("The Olympics countdown – failing to keep human rights promises [ASA 17/046/2006]") [ID 17904]

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15.09.2006 - Source: US Department of State

Annual report on religious freedom 2006 ("International Religious Freedom Report 2006") [ID 17068]

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07.09.2006 - Source: Amnesty International

Human rights violations despite commitment to protect and promote human rights (number of executions in 2005 reportedly at least as high as 1,770; prisoners are executed by shooting; censorship and crackdown on the media) ("EU-CHINA Summit: Human Rights Situation in China Remains Disturbing [ASA 17/050/2006]") [ID 17905]

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01.09.2006 - Source: Congressional-Executive Commission on China

Monthly update on human rights and rule of law (September 2006) ("China Human Rights and Rule of Law Update (September 2006)") [ID 17906]

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01.09.2006 - Source: Hanns Seidel Stiftung

Monthly report on recent developments (August 2006) ("China Monatsbericht August 2006") [ID 17907]

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09.2006 - Source: Freedom House

Hong Kong: Annual survey of political rights and civil liberties 2005 ("Freedom in the World 2006") [ID 17908]

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09.2006 - Source: Freedom House

Tibet: Annual survey of political rights and civil liberties 2005 ("Freedom in the World 2006") [ID 17909]

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09.2006 - Source: Freedom House

Annual survey of political rights and civil liberties 2005 ("Freedom in the World 2006") [ID 17910]

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31.08.2006 - Source: Human Rights in China

Monthly update on death penalty, labour, media censorship, petitions, protests and human rights defenders ("Monthly Brief; August 2006") [ID 17911]

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23.05.2006 - Source: Amnesty International

Overview ("Annual Report 2006") [ID 17356]

"Limited legal and judicial reforms did little to improve human rights protection. Tens of thousands of people continued to be detained in violation of their human rights and were at risk of torture or ill-treatment. Thousands of people were sentenced to death or executed. The authorities frequently resorted to the use of force against growing social unrest. There was a renewed crackdown on the media and Internet controls were tightened. The Uighur community in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) continued to face severe repression as part of the authorities’ “war on terror”. Freedom of expression and religion continued to be severely restricted in Tibet and other Tibetan areas. China’s arms sales to Sudan raised concerns that its actions were contributing to human rights violations in other countries. China continued a limited dialogue with selected members of the international community on human rights issues. However, human rights defenders at home continued to be arbitrarily detained and some were sentenced to prison terms."

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30.04.2006 - Source: Human Rights in China

Monthly brief on death penalty, labour, media censorship, petitions, protests and political dissidents ("Monthly Brief; April 2006") [ID 16994]

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26.04.2006 - Source: Center for Strategic and International Studies

Report on rule of law, social instability, NGOs and social reform, environmental problems, energy supply, relations with other Asian countries ("The Balance Sheet - Background Papers") [ID 16995]

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The Balance Sheet - Issue Snapshots

31.03.2006 - Source: Human Rights in China

Monthly brief on death penalty, labour, media censorship, petitions, protests and political dissidents ("Monthly Brief; March 2006") [#49725],  [ID 16996]

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27.03.2006 - Source: UN Human Rights Council (formerly UN Commission on Human Rights)

Report of the Commission on Human Rights on civil and political human rights and human rights violations ("Civil and political rights, including the question of religious intolerance - Addendum: Summary of cases transmitted to Governments and replies received [E/CN.4/2006/5/Add.1]") [#48886],  [ID 16997]

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17.03.2006 - Source: Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation

10th European Country of Origin Information Seminar Budapest, 1 - 2 December 2005: Final Report on China ("10th European Country of Origin Information Seminar Budapest, 1 - 2 December 2005: Final Report on China") [#46787],  [ID 3620]

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08.03.2006 - Source: US Department of State

Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2005 ("Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2005") [#46077],  [ID 3621]

"The government's human rights record remained poor, and the government continued to commit numerous and serious abuses. There was a trend towards increased harassment, detention, and imprisonment by government and security authorities of those perceived as threatening to government authority. The government also adopted measures to control more tightly print, broadcast and electronic media, and censored online content. Protests by those seeking to redress grievances increased significantly and were suppressed, at times violently, by security forces. There were notable developments in legal reforms during the year. However, some key measures to increase the authority of the judiciary and reduce the arbitrary power of police and security forces stalled. The government adopted new religious affairs regulations expanding legal protection for some activities of registered religious groups but was criticized for failing to protect unregistered groups.

The following human rights problems were reported:

* denial of the right to change the government
* physical abuse resulting in deaths in custody
* torture and coerced confessions of prisoners
* harassment, detention, and imprisonment of those perceived as threatening to party and government authority
* arbitrary arrest and detention, including nonjudicial administrative detention, reeducation-through-labor, psychiatric detention, and extended or incommunicado pretrial detention
* a politically controlled judiciary and a lack of due process in certain cases, especially those involving dissidents
* detention of political prisoners, including those convicted of disclosing state secrets and subversion, those convicted under the now-abolished crime of counterrevolution, and those jailed in connection with the 1989 Tiananmen demonstrations
* house arrest and other nonjudicially approved surveillance and detention of dissidents
* monitoring of citizens' mail, telephone and electronic communications
* use of a coercive birth limitation policy, in some cases resulting in forced abortion and sterilization
* increased restrictions on freedom of speech and the press; closure of newspapers and journals; banning of politically sensitive books, periodicals, and films; and jamming of some broadcast signals
* restrictions on the freedom of assembly, including detention and abuse of demonstrators and petitioners
* restrictions on religious freedom, control of religious groups, and harassment and detention of unregistered religious groups
* restrictions on the freedom of travel, especially for politically sensitive and underground religious figures
* forcible repatriation of North Koreans and inadequate protection of many refugees
* severe government corruption
* increased scrutiny, harassment and restrictions on independent domestic and foreign nongovernmental organization (NGO) operations
* trafficking in women and children
* societal discrimination against women, minorities, and persons with disabilities
* cultural and religious repression of minorities in Tibetan areas and Muslim areas of Xinjiang
* restriction of labor rights, including freedom of association, the right to organize and bargain collectively, and worker health and safety
* forced labor, including prison labor

There were several positive human rights developments during the year. The government returned authority to approve death sentences to the Supreme People's Court, supported local experiments to record police interrogation of suspects, and limited the administrative detention of minors, the elderly, pregnant women, and nursing mothers. In March government officials stated that family bible studies in private homes need not be registered with the government and said that the law permitted religious education of minors, but problems continued in both areas. The National People's Congress (NPC) adopted amendments to the law protecting women's rights and interests, including one outlawing sexual harassment. The government ratified International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 111 prohibiting discrimination in employment. The government also hosted visits by international human rights monitors."

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03.2006 - Source: Hanns Seidel Stiftung

Monthly report on new developments (March 2006) ("China Monatsbericht März 2006") [#48758],  [ID 16999]

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03.2006 - Source: Congressional-Executive Commission on China

Monthly update on human rights and the rule of law (March 2006) ("China Human Rights and the Rule of Law (March 2006)") [#46397],  [ID 17002]

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28.02.2006 - Source: Human Rights in China

Monthly brief on death penalty, labour, media censorship, petitions, protests and political dissidents ("Monthly Brief; February 2006") [#46858],  [ID 17003]

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02.2006 - Source: Hanns Seidel Stiftung

Monthly report on new developments (February 2006) ("China Monatsbericht Februar 2006") [#48756],  [ID 17000]

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01.2006 - Source: Hanns Seidel Stiftung

Monthly report on new developments (January 2006) ("China Monatsbericht Januar 2006") [#48755],  [ID 17001]

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01.2006 - Source: Human Rights Watch

Annual report on human rights situation in 2005 - Overview ("World Report 2006") [#42330],  [ID 17328]

"While many governments have praised recent developments in China, the country remains a one-party state that does not hold national elections, has no independent judiciary, leads the world in executions, aggressively censors the Internet, bans independent trade unions, and represses minorities such as Tibetans, Uighurs, and Mongolians.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) still has not come to terms with the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, refusing to publish information about the number of persons killed, injured, “disappeared,” or arrested or to admit that the attack on peaceful protestors was a mistake.

In spite of its socialist roots, China faces serious challenges stemming from growing disparities between rich and poor, and urban and rural populations. Along with official corruption, such disparities in 2005 fueled a rise in protests and demonstrations from workers, farmers, people forcibly evicted from their homes, victims of police abuse, and HIV/AIDS activists, among others. According to official figures, there were seventy-four thousand protests in China in 2004 involving 3.5 million people, up from fifty-eight thousand protests in 2003. China’s leaders’ preoccupation with social stability has increased accordingly.

Government and CCP leaders have responded to the increasing social mobilization with a multi-faceted crackdown on demonstrators and their allies and with repression of means for disseminating information and organizing protests, particularly the Internet. Apprehension that so-called hostile foreign forces are bent on destabilizing China has led authorities to censor incoming and outgoing news and personal communications across borders and to impose long prison sentences on academics, intellectuals, and journalists for expressing political opinions challenging official views. Plans by some officials to ease regulations and give more room to civil society, including grassroots groups, appear to have been shelved.

There has been some progress. In March 2004, China amended its constitution to read "The State respects and protects human rights." Although the constitution is not directly enforceable, the amendment does offer some hope that human rights will be legally protected. The term human rights has now made its way into common discourse in China."

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08.11.2005 - Source: US Department of State

International Religious Freedom Report 2005 ("International Religious Freedom Report 2005") [#38869],  [ID 3623]

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01.11.2005 - Source: Congressional-Executive Commission on China

Monthly update on human rights and rule of law ("China Human Rights and Rule of Law Update (November 1, 2005)") [#39166],  [ID 3624]

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Open document

11.2005 - Source: UK Home Office

Country report of November 2005 ("Country Report - October 2005 (revised November 2005)") [#39234],  [ID 3622]

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12.10.2005 - Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

U.S.: No improvement in China'S human rights; controls on political, religious, and media expressions tightened ("U.S. Sees No Improvement In China's Human Rights") [#38152],  [ID 3625]

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11.10.2005 - Source: Congressional-Executive Commission on China

Annual report on compliance with human rights, development of rule of law and institutions of democratic governance, Tibet, North Korean refugees in China and developments in Hong Kong ("Annual Report 2005") [#37506],  [ID 3626]

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02.09.2005 - Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

UN human rights chief rejects government's contention that feeding and clothing its population supersedes political freedoms ("UN Official: China Can't Go Its 'Own Way' On Rights") [#36216],  [ID 3627]

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30.08.2005 - Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

UN presses China to improve human rights situation; human rights groups report numerous human rights violations ("China: UN Human Rights Commissioner Urges Beijing To Improve Rights Record") [#36049],  [ID 3628]

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05.08.2005 - Source: Amnesty International

Concerns relating to country's human rights record (death penalty, freedom of expression, freedom of association, freedom from forced eviction) ("The Olympics countdown - three years of human rights reform?") [#34860],  [ID 3629]

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10.2003 - Source: UK Home Office

Country Assessment - October 2003 - Human rights, Overview ("Country Report - October 2003") [#49232],  [ID 3631]

"6.1. The overall opinion of the US State Department in their March 2003 report (for 2002) was that 'The [Chinese] Government's human rights record throughout the year remained poor, and the Government continued to commit numerous and serious abuses.' The key areas of concern were the lack of an independent judiciary, the torture and mistreatment of detainees, the high number of executions: including killings not sanctioned by the courts, censorship of the media and the suppression of dissidents; some of them religious or linked to separatist movements.

6.2. The Government for the PRC accused the United States of distorting human rights conditions in many countries, including China “while turning a blind eye to its own human rights related problems.”

6.3. Amnesty International (AI) has repeatedly complained about the PRCs refusal to permit any form of verification of human rights allegations by international NGOs. The stated view of the PRC government is that there are legitimate and differing approaches to human rights and that the approach taken is a matter for individual governments.

6.4. In March 2003, the Foreign Ministers of the European Union member states expressed concern over China's human rights record, though not seeking to raise a UN resolution to that effect.

6.5. On 11 September 2003, James Kelly, assistant US Secretary of State for Asia, voiced concern about China's poor human rights records. He concluded in testimony before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee that “Ongoing human rights violations are a serious impediment to better relations and undermine the good will generated by individual releases [of dissidents]... “"

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15.07.2003 - Source: Human Rights Watch

HRW: Human rights violations increased in 2003 ("Blair Must Raise Rights on China Tour") [#14324],  [ID 3632]

"In its letter, Human Rights Watch called on the [British] prime minister to raise with the Chinese government:

+the misuse of the war against terrorism as a cover for human rights abuses in Xinjiang province and elsewhere in China;
+escalating arrests and police violence against HIV-positive protestors in Henan province;
+restrictions on the right to freedom of association for workers nationwide;
+the ongoing campaign against Tibetans who question restrictions on their rights to freedom of religion, expression, and association;
+forced repatriation of North Korean refugees living in China; and
+denial of the right to free expression on the Internet."

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09.04.2003 - Source: Freedom House

Freedom House: Overview: Movements ("The world`s most repressive regimes 2003") [#12683],  [ID 3633]

"Chinese authorities, meanwhile, continue to stifle any organized calls for political reform. Since 1998, courts have sentenced more than 30 leaders of a would-be opposition party, the China Democracy Party, to prison terms of up to 13 years on subversion or other charges. The government has also jailed thousands of followers of the Falun Gong spiritual movement, which in 1999 organized the biggest protest in the capital since 1989 to demand official recognition.

Wary of separatism, the government has also tried to crush pro-independence movements among the seven million ethnic Uighurs and other, smaller Turkic-speaking Muslim groups in China’s northwestern Xinjiang province. Since the early 1990s, officials have detained “tens of thousands” of Uighurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang, executing several for alleged separatist activities, the human rights group Amnesty International said in a March report. Most Uighur independence activities appear to be peaceful. Beijing, however, has used allegations that Uighur militants carried out several bombings and assassinations in the 1990s—and, more recently, the post-September 11 campaign against pan-Islamic terrorism—to brand all Uighur dissidents as terrorists."

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09.04.2003 - Source: Freedom House

Freedom House: Minorities ("The world`s most repressive regimes 2003") [#12683],  [ID 3634]

"Muslims and other minorities face unofficial discrimination in access to jobs and other areas, and minorities credibly claim that the majority Han Chinese have reaped an outsize share of benefits from government programs and economic growth, according to the U.S. State Department report. China’s 55 ethnic minorities make up just under 9 percent of the population, according to 1995 government figures."

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31.03.2003 - Source: US Department of State

USDOS: National "strike hard" campaign ("Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2002") [#11836],  [ID 3636]

"Throughout the year, the Government continued a national "strike hard" campaign against crime, characterized by round-ups of suspects who were sometimes sentenced in sports arenas in front of thousands of spectators. At year's end, this campaign, which was originally scheduled to last for 3 months at its inception in April 2001, showed no signs of abating in some areas. Some dissidents, "separatists," and underground church members were targeted. The campaign has been especially harsh in Xinjiang, where those deemed to be "splittists" by the Government were targeted. As part of the campaign, officials reportedly carried out over 4,000 executions during the year, frequently without due process."

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22.01.2003 - Source: Süddeutsche Zeitung

Bürgschaft für Chinas Größenwahn ("Bürgschaft für Chinas Größenwahn") [#10941],  [ID 3637]

21.08.2002 - Source: Frankfurter Rundschau

UN-Kommissarin Robinson klagt Unterdrückung in China an ("UN-Kommissarin Robinson klagt Unterdrückung in China an") [#8388],  [ID 3639]

"Zum Abschluss ihres zweitägigen Besuchs, bei dem Robinson ein UN-Projekt zur Weiterbildung von chinesischen Juristen vorstellte, äußerte sie am Dienstag deutliche Kritik an der Menschenrechtslage. Peking habe die weltweite Anti-Terror-Kampagne genutzt, um die moslemische Minderheit in Xinjiang weiter zu unterdrücken. Seit dem 11. September werde in der Westprovinz die Todesstrafe öfter angewandt. Deutlich kritisierte sie die Lage in Tibet: Durch die organisierte Ansiedlung von Han-Chinesen drohten die Tibeter "zur Minderheit" eigenen Land zu werden."

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31.03.2002 - Source: Human Rights in China

China's human rights situation has diverged in two different directions: On the one hand, China's human rights have made great strides in some areas such as culture, entertainment and economics. On the other hand, some areas, notably civil and political rights, are still subject to considerable suppression and the situation has actually deteriorated ("China human rights policy: 10 years after Vienna") [#12013],  [ID 3640]

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10.11.2001 - Source: Frankfurter Rundschau

Ein erfolgreicher Besuch, nur Fortschritte bringt er nicht ("Ein erfolgreicher Besuch, nur Fortschritte bringt er nicht") [#4875],  [ID 3641]

"China blockiert trotz seiner Zusagen weiter den Besuch des UN-Inspekteurs für Folter. Die Menschenrechtsorganisation Human Rights in China berichtete, UN-Sonderberichterstatter Sir Nigel Rodley sei "frustriert" über Pekings Verweigerungshaltung. Die UN-Menschenrechtsbeauftragte Mary Robinson konnte bei einem zweitägigen China-Besuch in Gesprächen mit Pekings Führung keine Fortschritte erzielen.

(...) Folter sei in China ein "sehr weitverbreitetes" Problem, sagte Robinson und forderte Peking auf, Inspektoren ins Land zu lassen. Die Verfolgung der Falun-Gong-Bewegung habe zu Rückschritten in der Rede- und Versammlungsfreiheit geführt, sagte Robinson."

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22.09.2001 - Source: Frankfurter Rundschau

The Chinese government takes action against unionists, civil rights activists and adherents of religious groups (German) ("Peking verschärft Kurs gegen Dissidenten") [#4102],  [ID 3642]

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