US told to examine own record
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April 11, 2011, Monday
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CHINA answered United States criticism of its human rights situation yesterday by publishing a report on human rights in the US itself.
The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010 was released by the Information Office of China's State Council in response to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2010 issued by the US Department of State on April 8.
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," China's 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.
It advised 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."
The report said the use of violence and torturing suspects to obtain confessions was a serious issue in US law enforcement, and "wrongful conviction occurred quite often."
The report also said the US was guilty of double standards by requesting unrestricted "Internet freedom" in other countries while imposing strict restriction within its own territory.
On crime, it said that one in every five US citizens was the victim of a crime every year.
The US reports the world's highest incidence of violent crimes, and its people's lives, properties and personal security are not duly protected, the report said.
In 2009, an estimated 4.3 million violent crimes, 15.6 million property crimes and 133,000 personal thefts were committed against US residents aged 12 or over, and the violent crime rate was 17.1 cases per 1,000 persons, said the report, quoting official US figures.
The US also ranks first in the world in the number of privately-owned guns and had a high incidence of gun-related crime, said the report, noting lax control on already rampant gun ownership.
The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010 was released by the Information Office of China's State Council in response to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2010 issued by the US Department of State on April 8.
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," China's 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.
It advised 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."
The report said the use of violence and torturing suspects to obtain confessions was a serious issue in US law enforcement, and "wrongful conviction occurred quite often."
The report also said the US was guilty of double standards by requesting unrestricted "Internet freedom" in other countries while imposing strict restriction within its own territory.
On crime, it said that one in every five US citizens was the victim of a crime every year.
The US reports the world's highest incidence of violent crimes, and its people's lives, properties and personal security are not duly protected, the report said.
In 2009, an estimated 4.3 million violent crimes, 15.6 million property crimes and 133,000 personal thefts were committed against US residents aged 12 or over, and the violent crime rate was 17.1 cases per 1,000 persons, said the report, quoting official US figures.
The US also ranks first in the world in the number of privately-owned guns and had a high incidence of gun-related crime, said the report, noting lax control on already rampant gun ownership.
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