State Dept. Human Rights Report Faults China's Curbs on Internet

Posted on March 7, 2007 7:36 PM | | Comments (0)

By Nora Boustany | Washington Post Foreign Service
March 07, 2007

China is at the top of a list of countries blocking Internet access, and Russia and Venezuela have shown serious regression in several areas, mainly in centralizing power in the executive branch, according to State Department officials who released the department's annual human rights report yesterday.
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He put China at the top of the list of countries putting restrictions on the Internet. Human rights in China have "deteriorated on a number of areas," with no action on promised legal reforms or changes in courtroom proceedings, and a continued "system of reeducation through labor." Thousands of demonstrations in the countryside showed that people were seeking redress and that accountability was still lacking, he added.

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