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HRW Executive Director Sounds Alarm on China's Assault on Human Rights

Margaret Besheer

   UNITED NATIONS - The head of Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that China
   has launched an assault on the international human rights system, and
   governments need to resist Beijing's actions.

   "This is the most severe period of repression that we have seen in
   decades in China," said Kenneth Roth, HRW executive director.

   In its World Report 2020, launched Tuesday at the United Nations, the
   rights group chronicles abuses in 95 countries. It expresses its
   deepest concern, though, about an emboldened China, which it warns is
   using its growing global economic influence to silence domestic critics
   and deter condemnation abroad.

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