China
China interrupts UN testimony of ex-political prisoner; USA defends Yang Jianli
GENEVA, March 15, 2011 – The Chinese government today interrupted testimony by one of its most well-known former political prisoners in the plenary of the
U.N. Exhibit Praises China’s Human Rights Record
PRESS RELEASE 36 NGOs Urge U.N. Rights Chief to Attend Oslo Nobel Ceremony and Support Chinese Dissident GENEVA, December 10, 2010 – Rights groups expressed
NGO raps UN chiefs’ failure to call for Chinese prisoner’s release
PRESS RELEASE Ban Ki-moon praised China’s “remarkable advances” GENEVA, October 11, 2010 – A Geneva-based human rights group welcomed today’s call by four UN experts
Issue 246: Repression in Tibet
To the Editor: Re “Tibetans Fear Philanthropist’s Ordeal Shows Broadening of Crackdown” (news article, NYT, June 24): China’s brutal arrest of Karma Samdrup, a 42-year-old
UN Watch Disappointed at U.N. Rights Chief Refusal to Meet Dalai Lamai
PRESS RELEASE But welcomes Pillay’s criticism of China’s “systemic violations of human rights” GENEVA, July 29, 2009 — The Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch expressed
U.N. Delegates Laud China for Death Penalty and Restricting Internet
PRESS RELEASE Group reports: U.N. rights council turning into “Mutual Praise Society” GENEVA, February 9, 2009 — Delegates to a U.N. meeting today on China’s human rights record
