AFP, Beijing :
China on Friday slammed the United States for a “terrible human rights record”, denouncing it for police brutality and global surveillance a day after Washington criticised Beijing’s own performance.
In a report sourced mainly from US media, China said the US was “haunted by spreading guns, frequent occurrence of violent crimes, the excessive use of force by police”.
It said that US intelligence had used “indiscriminate” torture against terrorist suspects, while “violating human rights in other countries” with drone strikes and surveillance.
The document is released each year by China the day after the US State Department issues its annual global human rights report. Beijing does not release rights reports on other countries.
Unlike China the US is a multiparty democracy but the report declared:
“Money is a deciding factor in the US politics, and the US citizens’ political rights were not properly protected.”
China’s ruling Communist Party has repeatedly imprisoned those who openly challenge its right to rule or have protested publicly.
Its state-run media said in December that torture by Chinese police to extract confessions is “not rare”, in an unusual admission.
China on Friday slammed the United States for a “terrible human rights record”, denouncing it for police brutality and global surveillance a day after Washington criticised Beijing’s own performance.
In a report sourced mainly from US media, China said the US was “haunted by spreading guns, frequent occurrence of violent crimes, the excessive use of force by police”.
It said that US intelligence had used “indiscriminate” torture against terrorist suspects, while “violating human rights in other countries” with drone strikes and surveillance.
The document is released each year by China the day after the US State Department issues its annual global human rights report. Beijing does not release rights reports on other countries.
Unlike China the US is a multiparty democracy but the report declared:
“Money is a deciding factor in the US politics, and the US citizens’ political rights were not properly protected.”
China’s ruling Communist Party has repeatedly imprisoned those who openly challenge its right to rule or have protested publicly.
Its state-run media said in December that torture by Chinese police to extract confessions is “not rare”, in an unusual admission.
