{"id":35095,"date":"2013-08-02T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=35095 "},"modified":"2013-08-02T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T21:28:00","slug":"35095-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=35095","title":{"rendered":"US official: China\\’s rights record getting worse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chinese paramilitary police stand guard in the Muslim Uighur minority area of Urumqi, Xinjiang Province on June 30, 2013. Human rights conditions in China are worsening, a senior US official said Friday, accusing Beijing of harassing activists’ family members and repressing ethnic and religious minorities. (AFP\/File)<\/div>
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BEIJING (AFP) –  Human rights conditions in China are worsening, a senior US official said Friday, accusing Beijing of harassing activists’ family members and repressing ethnic and religious minorities.<\/div>
“We continue to see a deterioration in the overall human rights situation in China,” said Uzra Zeya, acting assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labour.<\/div>
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Zeya was briefing reporters after she led Washington’s delegation to a US-China Human Rights Dialogue meeting held earlier this week in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming.<\/div>
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She mentioned Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident Liu Xiaobo and human rights advocate Chen Guangcheng as examples of activists whose families have been victimised.<\/div>
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“This is a worrisome trend and one which we have raised at senior levels with the Chinese government,” she said.<\/div>
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Zeya also cited China’s policies towards ethnic and religious minorities such as Buddhist Tibetans and Muslim Uighurs, “particularly with respect to repressive measures related to religious practice”.<\/div>
China is sensitive to criticism of its human rights record and counters that the US has plenty of problems of its own.<\/div>
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In a rejoinder to a US rights report condemning China, Beijing in April accused Washington of human rights violations through its military operations abroad and failing to protect its own citizens from gun violence.<\/div>
It said in a report of its own that Washington had “turned a blind eye to its own woeful human rights situation”, despite styling itself as “the world judge of human rights”.<\/div>
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China — which officially includes rising living standards in its definition of human rights — released the document in response to a US report published two days earlier.<\/div>
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“The Chinese side did raise some concerns on the human rights situation in the US” at the Kunming meeting, Zeya said, without giving details.<\/div>
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“I think we were very open to responding and ultimately I’d like to think that we’re an open book when it comes to human rights,” she added.<\/div>
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China’s foreign ministry said in a press release that the talks had been “frank, in-depth, comprehensive and constructive”, state media reported.<\/div>
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The Xinhua news agency said the Chinese delegation had urged “the US side to respect China’s judicial sovereignty and stop bothering China on some isolated cases”.<\/div>
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Reuters\uff1a China rights scenario deteriorating, says United States<\/a><\/div>
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VOA\uff1a US: China Human Rights Continue to Deteriorate<\/a><\/div>
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