Communist China pledges to improve human rights – with Chinese characteristics
— Communist’s so-called “Human Rights Action Plan of China (2009-2010)”
— “China said it would adopt only those suggestions that were ‘rational and feasible…in the light of China’s actual conditions'”
— “The plan was published as China’s state security apparatus continued to stifle dissenting voices ahead of a raft of sensitive anniversaries this year, including the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square killings in June 1989.”
— Communist Chinese report says: “Having just entered the stage of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and accelerating socialist modernisation, China is faced with the arduous tasks of reform, development and stabilisation… Due to the influences and limitations of nature, history, culture, economic and social development level, and other factors, China still confronts many challenges and has a long road ahead in its efforts to improve its human rights situation.”
— Daily Telegraph states that “the report did promise to do more to prevent prisoner abuses, following a wave public outcry over several recent “accidents” in Chinese jails, including one prisoner who died “playing hide and seek”. In an apparent nod to that public concern, the plan calls for a physical barrier between detainees and interrogators and mandatory physical examinations for detainees before and after they are questioned.”