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Advocacy Group: China Poses Dire Threat to International Human Rights System

Lisa Schlein

   GENEVA - Human Rights Watch accuses China of developing a mass
   surveillance system to monitor and control its population. China
   figures prominently in the agency's annual report, which examines the
   human rights situation in more than 90 countries.

   The advocacy group's report says the Chinese people are living through
   the most intense period of repression since the brutal crackdown on
   pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in 1989. It says the
   Uighurs in the northwestern region of Xianjiang province are most
   victimized. It says more than one million people are interned in
   so-called re-education camps in an effort to erase their Muslim
   heritage and culture, a claim China denies.
   

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