Report says China maintaining 'world’s most sophisticated system of authoritarian political control'
Phayul[Friday, January 20, 2012 15:57]
DHARAMSHALA, January 20: A global survey on political rights and civil liberties has placed Tibet, along with Western Sahara, as the two worst-rated territories in the world.
The findings of Freedom in the World 2012, the latest edition of Freedom House’s annual rights report for the year 2011, also gave China a downward trend arrow due to increased Communist Party efforts to restrict public discussion of political, legal, and human rights issues and growing online censorship.
China, along with Burma and Libya, were among the eight countries to receive scores that were slightly above those of the worst-ranked countries, with ratings of 6,7 or 7,6 for political rights and civil liberties, 7 being the worst.
The report noted that in 2011, authorities in China responded to the Arab uprisings with a “near-hysterical campaign” of repression by “censoring public discussion of the movement for Arab democratisation, prosecuting or arbitrarily detaining scores of social-media commentators and human rights lawyers, and strengthening the online censorship of domestic social-networking services”.
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