Sustainable Gardeners and Farmers
Sharing knowledge to sustain our food systems and communities
This group will create an open, global forum where growers can share practical knowledge with each other, pose questions and find answers. It is open to experts, amateurs and to beginners who look to enrich their lives by learning to grow food. It will also provide a space to share concerns about current food systems as well as sustainable approaches. I form ...learn more
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Created: Dec 24, 2007
Updated: Nov 22, 2009
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Return to Files & Photos for group China's ChoicesCHINA: NO PROGRESS ON HUMAN RIGHTS
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In February 1994, Human Rights Watch/Asia (formerly Asia Watch) issued a 650-page survey of repression in China titled Detained in China and Tibet: A Directory of Political and Religious Prisoners. The report observed that 1993 had been the worst year for political arrests and trials in China since mid-1990 and the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
But since the report was issued, the human rights situation in China has deteriorated further, in a way that could have major implications for the decision President Clinton must make in early June about whether to renew China's Most Favored Nation trading status. Religious believers have been rounded up and sent to prison, and peaceful advocates of Tibetan independence have been imprisoned or had their sentences increased. In a far-reaching political clampdown on the arts, film directors, poets, and publishers have been harassed or banned from working. And the authorities have launched a frontal assault against the resurgent dissident movement in Beijing, Shanghai, and other cities, with dozens of activists having been either briefly detained or arrested and now awaiting prosecution for ideological "crimes."
But since the report was issued, the human rights situation in China has deteriorated further, in a way that could have major implications for the decision President Clinton must make in early June about whether to renew China's Most Favored Nation trading status. Religious believers have been rounded up and sent to prison, and peaceful advocates of Tibetan independence have been imprisoned or had their sentences increased. In a far-reaching political clampdown on the arts, film directors, poets, and publishers have been harassed or banned from working. And the authorities have launched a frontal assault against the resurgent dissident movement in Beijing, Shanghai, and other cities, with dozens of activists having been either briefly detained or arrested and now awaiting prosecution for ideological "crimes."
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