I went to Amnesty International’s website and found a human rights report in China from 2008. It talks about the growing number of human rights activists imprisoned, under house arrest, surveillance or being harassed by the government. Minority groups and minority religions are persecuted. Even though the death penalty is being reviewed by the Supreme People’s Court it is still widely used in secrecy. Torture is used and Chinese people don’t have access to a fair justice system. Violence and discrimination is still being experienced by women and girls throughout the country. And internet and media is censored by the government. The article goes into even more detail about each section and it paints a picture of how little human rights the people of China actually have.
It is appalling that in the 21st century a modern industrialized country can be so far behind in their thinking. Today I heard on the news Donald Trump say how we are falling behind to countries like China and I heard the same thing out of Barak Obama during his State of the Union Address. I think that part of the reason is because they are communist and they scare their citizens into being extremely productive but i don’t think they are a country we should aspire to be. Leaders in our country should not be comparing us to China and talking about how great they are when they treat their citizens with such lack of humanity. America isn’t perfect and there are still countless human rights issues that need to be addressed but we should not compare ourselves to a country that has such disregard for its citizens.
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