Monday, April 11, 2011

China tells US not to interfere on human rights

Sunday, April 10, 2011
AFP

BEIJING — China has told Washington not to interfere in its affairs after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for the release of dozens of activists rounded up in a growing crackdown on dissent.

Beijing rejected an annual human rights survey by the State Department saying China had stepped up efforts to rein in activists, the media and free Internet access and pursued “severe repression” in the Tibet and Xinjiang regions.

“The US should stop interfering in other countries’ internal affairs with human rights reports,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in a statement issued late Saturday.

Clinton said on Friday that Beijing’s record on human rights was worsening.

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