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'Criminal State' China Intensifying Human Rights Abuses, Say British MPs

Henry Ridgwell

   LONDON - The Chinese Communist party has intensified an assault on all
   human rights throughout China, and those interacting with the regime
   should do so in the knowledge they are interacting with 'a criminal
   state', says a new report from the human rights commission of Britain's
   ruling Conservative Party.

   From the incarceration of millions of ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang
   province, to the brutal crackdown on protests and democracy in Hong
   Kong, there has been a massive deterioration in the human rights
   situation in China the past five years, according to the author of the
   report, Benedict Rogers, co-founder of the commission.

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