{"id":131881,"date":"2017-11-16T23:08:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T04:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=131881"},"modified":"2017-11-16T23:08:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T04:08:30","slug":"human-rights-repression-in-china-seen-worsening-under-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/16\/human-rights-repression-in-china-seen-worsening-under-xi\/","title":{"rendered":"Human rights repression in China seen worsening under Xi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Activists are describing a drastic deterioration in China’s treatment of human rights campaigners as the country’s most powerful leader in a generation associates China’s rise as a global power with highly authoritarian, one-party rule. (Photo<\/a> by Will Clayton\/ Flickr<\/a>, CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BEIJING \u2014 Activists are describing a drastic deterioration in China’s treatment of human rights campaigners as the country’s most powerful leader in a generation associates China’s rise as a global power with highly authoritarian, one-party rule.<\/p>\n

A Human Rights Watch researcher and others say there are more secret detentions and closed-door trials and less regard for due process. Political prisoners are held in harsh conditions and their health is ignored.<\/p>\n

Maya Wang of Human Rights Watch describes the situation as the worst since 1989’s crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square. \u201cWe feel we haven’t hit bottom yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

China’s government rejects accusations of rights abuses but it also says no outsider has the right to challenge its judicial sovereignty and dismisses universal rights as a Western notion that would undermine Chinese society.<\/p>\n

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