Saturday, November 10, 2001

CHINA: China's crackdown on the Falun Gong spiritual (practice) has "retarded" its record on human rights, the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights commissioner, Mrs. Mary Robinson, said yesterday. Speaking at the end of a two-day visit to China during which she met the President, Mr Jiang Zemin, and other government figures. Mrs. Robinson said some "positive developments" had been made in co-operation over rights issues. However she issued a stark warning that there was still a long way to go.

But some rights had actually been eroded further during Beijing's campaign against the Falun Gong spiritual movement, which she said had been accompanied by "sharp" curtailments of liberties. Mrs. Robinson said she had raised the cases of several prisoners.

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2001/1110/wor505.htm

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