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US has a moral obligation to Pressure China to improve human rights

 

Journalists in China fight an uphill battle as well, facing obstacles with the visa process, including delays and the constant threat of revocation. Access to reliable, impartial information in the country has always been an issue for its citizens and has become more difficult in recent years. The so called "Great Firewall of China" is a barrier between the world's largest market of Internet users and a range of social media sites and news outlets. China's failing human rights record is not only a concern for the people of China, but for anyone who values the fundamental principles from which our own nation was built. The freedoms of expression, press, assembly and religion, to name just a few, are essential in any modern society. People around the globe should live with these basic human rights. We have a moral obligation to highlight these injustices and use our influence to change these policies. My colleagues recently launched the #FreeChinasHeroes Twitter campaign to spotlight cases and raise awareness of this injustice during President Xi's visit. This, along with other efforts to call attention to human rights abuses in China, will hopefully help to bring change. The juxtaposition of the Pope's message to Congress pressing us to respect human life, with President Xi's record of abuse, can help shine a light on a problem too important to ignore

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Chinese government is openly hostile against human rights activists – empirics prove

HRW 15 (Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Watch is an international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. 2015 https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2015/country-chapters/china-and-tibet) Accessed 7/12/16

The Chinese government’s open hostility towards human rights activists was tragically illustrated by the death of grassroots activist Cao Shunli in March. Cao was detained for trying to participate in the 2013 Universal Periodic Review of China’s human rights record at the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva. For several months, authorities denied her access to adequate health care even though she was seriously ill, and she died in March 2014, just days after authorities finally transferred her from detention to a hospital. The government continued its anti-corruption campaign, taking aim at senior officials, including former security czar Zhou Yongkang, as well as lower-level officials. But the campaign has been conducted in ways that further undermine the rule of law, with accused officials held in an unlawful detention system, deprived of basic legal protections, and often coerced to confess. The civic group known as the New Citizens Movement, best known for its campaign to combat corruption through public disclosure of officials’ assets, has endured especially harsh reprisals. In response to the Chinese government’s decision on August 31 denying genuine democracy in Hong Kong, students boycotted classes and launched demonstrations. Police initially tried to clear some demonstrators with pepper spray and tear gas, which prompted hundreds of thousands to join the protests and block major roads in several locations. While senior Hong Kong government officials reluctantly met once with student leaders, they proposed no changes to the electoral process. Hundreds remained in three “Occupy Central” zones through November, when courts ruled some areas could be cleared and the government responded, using excessive force in arresting protest leaders and aggressively using pepper spray once again. Protests continued in other areas, some student leaders embarked on a hunger strike with the aim of re-engaging the government in dialogue, while other protest leaders turned themselves in to the police as a gesture underscoring their civil disobedience. Despite the waning of street protests, the underlying political issues remained unresolved and combustible at time of writing. Human Rights Defenders Activists increasingly face arbitrary detention, imprisonment, commitment to psychiatric facilities, or house arrest. Physical abuse, harassment, and intimidation are routine. The government has convicted and imprisoned nine people for their involvement in the New Citizens Movement—including its founder, prominent legal scholar Xu Zhiyong—mostly on vaguely worded public order charges. Well-known lawyer Pu Zhiqiang and journalist Gao Yu, among others, were arrested around the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre in June 2014. Many activists continue to be detained pending trial, and some, including lawyers Chang Boyang and Guo Feixiong, have been repeatedly denied access to lawyers. Virtually all face sentences heavier than activists received for similar activities in past years. The increased use of criminal detention may stem from the abolition of the RTL administrative detention system in late 2013. China has 500,000 registered nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), though many are effectively government-run. An estimated 1.5 million more NGOs operate without proper registration because the criteria for doing so remain stringent despite gradual relaxation in recent years. The government remains suspicious of NGOs, and there are signs that authorities stepped up surveillance of some groups in 2014. In June, a Chinese website posted an internal National Security Commission document that announced a nationwide investigation of foreign-based groups operating in China and Chinese groups that work with them. Subsequently, a number of groups reportedly were made to answer detailed questionnaires about their operations and funding, and were visited by the police. In June and July, Yirenping, an anti-discrimination organization, had its bank account frozen and its office searched by the police in connection with the activism of one of its legal representatives.

Human rights in China bad – empirics prove

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(Katie, “Crackdown on human rights in China,” Vatican Radio. 5/17/2016. http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2016/07/05/crackdown_on_human_rights_in_china/1242183)

(Vatican Radio) A new report has been released by the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission entitled: “The Darkest Moment: The Crackdown on Human Rights in China 2013-2016”. The report, published in June, covers topics from freedom of religion to organ harvesting, and spans the presidency of Xi Jinping. Katie Ascough spoke with Ben Rodgers, Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, to find out more about the main concerns in this latest report on China. “The main concerns are that over the last three years…we have seen a very significant crackdown on human rights in China across the board,” explained Ben Rodgers. This includes the rounding up of more than 300 human rights lawyers in the past year and the destruction of over 1500 crosses from churches in one province. According to Rodgers, China has seen the erosion of freedom of expression and freedom of religion, as well as other forms of dissent. When asked what he hopes the report can accomplish, Rodgers replied: “We’re calling for a total review and rethink of British policy toward China. In basically the same time as the crackdown [on human rights], the United Kingdom has developed a much closer, much friendlier relationship with China which has been described with the term ‘a golden era’. Our report is titled ‘the darkest moment’ which is a phrase that comes from one of the people that gave evidence to us.” After highlighting this dangerous irony, Rodgers commented: “We’re not saying that we shouldn’t engage with China or trade with China [but]…the British government should start to speak out much more strongly within the context of that relationship, and to do so publicly as well as privately.” Though Rodgers welcomes the pope’s concern for the people of China, he says the current government is “quite hard-line” and it’s difficult to see who will influence them at this stage.

Human Rights in China are worse than ever – since 1989

Lin 15 – Xin Lin is a reporter at the Radio Free Asia Organization. (“Human Rihts abusees in China ‘At Worst Since 1989”) http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/hotan-02162015160611.html/humanrights-02162015165824.html

China's human rights situation is currently the worst that has been seen in a quarter-century, a Chinese rights group said in an annual report released on Monday. The Hubei-based Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch group described a "worsening and regressive human rights situation," and a domestic security regime that is more oppressive than anything seen in the past 25 years. "The stability maintenance regime is getting stricter and stricter; you could say it's getting more and more brutal, more and more inhuman," Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch founder Liu Feiyue told RFA. "[Last year] was the cruelest we have since since 1989, which is cause for extreme concern," he said. During 2014, the nationwide system for keeping track of critics of the ruling Chinese Communist Party was upgraded to the status of a national-level policy, Liu's report said. This nationwide surveillance system now actively targets civil society for control and suppression, and has strengthened 'grid' surveillance to exert and maintain social control, it said. In March 2014, premier Li Keqiang announced a rise in the domestic security, or "stability maintenance," budget to 205 billion yuan (U.S. $33 billion) at an annual parliamentary session inside the Great Hall of the People. Across the country, rights lawyers, writers, journalists, academics, NGO activists, political dissidents and rights activists were targeted with often violent measures under the system, according to the report. It documented 2,270 cases in which the authorities had implemented "stability maintenance" measures against such targets, which can include house arrest, phone tapping, enforced 'holidays' and criminal detention by state security police, 2,270 times during 2014, the report said.

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