Hitting back at the US, China today came out with a report on America's human rights record accusing Washington of turning a 'blind eye to its own terrible human rights situation'.
Hitting back at the US, China today came out with a report on America's human rights record accusing Washington of turning a "blind eye to its own terrible human rights situation".
The report titled 'Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010' was released by the Information Office of China's cabinet, hours after Washington issued Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2010.
The US reports are "full of distortions and accusations of the human rights situation in more than 190 countries and regions including China. However, the United States turned a blind eye to its own terrible human rights situation and seldom mentioned it," the Chinese report said.
The US has taken human rights as "a political instrument to defame other nations' image and seek its own strategic interests," the report said.
China's report said the United States could not be justified to pose as the world's "human rights justice."
"However, it released the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices year after year to accuse and blame other countries for their human rights practices," the report said.
These moves fully expose the United States' hypocrisy by exercising double standards on human rights and its malicious design to pursue hegemony under the pretext of human rights, it said.
The Chinese report asked the US government to "take concrete actions to improve its own human rights conditions, check and rectify its acts in the human rights field, and stop the hegemonistic deeds of using human rights issues to interfere in other countries' internal affairs."
It said violation of citizens' civil and political rights by the US government is severe. Citizen's privacy has been undermined. More than 6,600 travelers had been subject to electronic device searches between October 1, 2008 and June 2, 2010, nearly half of them American citizens, it said, citing figures released by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The report said abuse of violence and torturing suspects to get confession is serious in the US law enforcement, and "wrongful conviction occurred quite often."
While advocating Internet freedom, the US in fact imposes fairly strict restriction on cyberspace, the report said.
US applies double standards on Internet freedom by requesting unrestricted "Internet freedom" in other countries, which becomes an important diplomatic tool for the US to impose pressure and seek hegemony and imposing strict restriction within its own territory, the report said.
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