Free Trade or Fascism?
MSN-China, host of the summer Olympics, is an authoritarian nation that denies its people basic human rights and freedoms, harasses journalists and foreign aid workers and tortures prisoners, the United States charged Tuesday.China is still among the world’s human rights abusers despite rapid economic growth that has transformed large parts of Chinese society, the State Department said in an annual accounting of human rights practices around the world.
Portions of the report were obtained by The Associated Press ahead of its release Tuesday. The report gives a chilling account of alleged torture in China, including the use of electric shocks, beatings, shackles, and other forms of abuse. It includes an account of a prisoner strapped to a “tiger bench,” as device that forces the legs to bend sometimes until they break.
Torture of Gao RongRong in the Longshan forced Labor Camp
March 13th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Close Guantanamo!
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Wrong torture center.
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Sorry.
March 13th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I think everybody but the PREDTORY ANTI FREE MARKET CAPITALISTS are willing to admit what a treat China has become. Whether it is their slave wages or their military build up we should become concerned. Back when we were just dumping minimum wage textile jobs it wasn’t that big of a deal. Now it’s serious. Cheap labor and dodging high US tax rates may be a reason but who will they sell to when the middle class is eroded? Rick
March 16th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
This shrinking dollar can’t be helping the folks at the bottom in China.