US has expressed concern over increasing crackdown on civil liberties in China, including Tibet, prompting Beijing to hit back saying instead of acting as ‘the world judge of human rights’ America should address its own serious rights problems and abuse by its military abroad.
In its annual survey of human rights around the world, the US State Department has said that in China ‘repression and coercion, particularly against organisations and individuals involved in rights advocacy and public interest issues, were routine.’
In a lengthy rebuttal released Sunday, the State Council or China’s cabinet argued that there are serious human rights problems in the US which incur extensive criticism in the world, as it has posed as ‘the world judge of human rights’ again.
‘As in previous years, the reports are full of carping and irresponsible remarks on the human rights situation in more than 190 countries and regions including China,’ China said in a report titled ‘Human Rights Record of the United States in 2012’.
‘However, the US turned a blind eye to its own woeful human rights situation and never said a word about it,’ it said. The US’s annual global human rights report issued on Friday said, ‘There was severe official repression of the freedoms of speech, religion, association, and harsh restrictions on the movement of ethnic Uighurs in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and of ethnic Tibetans in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and other Tibetan areas.’
China’s rebuttal said the US government continues to step up surveillance of ordinary citizens, restricting and reducing the freedom of the US society to a considerable extent, and seriously violating the freedom of citizens.
The US Congress approved a bill in 2012 that authorised the government to conduct warrantless wiretapping and electronic communications monitoring, a move that violated people’s rights to privacy.
The National Security Agency collects purely domestic communications of Americans in a ‘significant and systematic’ way, intercepting and storing 1.7 billion emails, phone calls and other types of communications every day, the Chinese report said, according to state run Xinhua news agency. The proportion of women in the victims of domestic violence and sexual assault kept increasing in the US, it said.
Last year, several shootings left astonishing casualties, such as the school shooting in Oakland, the Century 16 theatre shooting in Colorado and the school shooting in Connecticut.
Americans are the most heavily armed people in the world per capita and firearms-related violent crimes posed as one of the most serious threats to the lives and personal security of the US citizens, China said in its report.
In its annual survey of human rights around the world, the US State Department has said that in China ‘repression and coercion, particularly against organisations and individuals involved in rights advocacy and public interest issues, were routine.’
In a lengthy rebuttal released Sunday, the State Council or China’s cabinet argued that there are serious human rights problems in the US which incur extensive criticism in the world, as it has posed as ‘the world judge of human rights’ again.
‘As in previous years, the reports are full of carping and irresponsible remarks on the human rights situation in more than 190 countries and regions including China,’ China said in a report titled ‘Human Rights Record of the United States in 2012’.
‘However, the US turned a blind eye to its own woeful human rights situation and never said a word about it,’ it said. The US’s annual global human rights report issued on Friday said, ‘There was severe official repression of the freedoms of speech, religion, association, and harsh restrictions on the movement of ethnic Uighurs in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and of ethnic Tibetans in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and other Tibetan areas.’
China’s rebuttal said the US government continues to step up surveillance of ordinary citizens, restricting and reducing the freedom of the US society to a considerable extent, and seriously violating the freedom of citizens.
The US Congress approved a bill in 2012 that authorised the government to conduct warrantless wiretapping and electronic communications monitoring, a move that violated people’s rights to privacy.
The National Security Agency collects purely domestic communications of Americans in a ‘significant and systematic’ way, intercepting and storing 1.7 billion emails, phone calls and other types of communications every day, the Chinese report said, according to state run Xinhua news agency. The proportion of women in the victims of domestic violence and sexual assault kept increasing in the US, it said.
Last year, several shootings left astonishing casualties, such as the school shooting in Oakland, the Century 16 theatre shooting in Colorado and the school shooting in Connecticut.
Americans are the most heavily armed people in the world per capita and firearms-related violent crimes posed as one of the most serious threats to the lives and personal security of the US citizens, China said in its report.