HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA BEFORE 2008 OLIMPICS GAMES

JOURNALISTIC RESEARCH VIA INTERNET

Human rights in china before olimpics games according to amnesty Internation
China is the largest country in East Asia. It is the most populated nation in the world, with more than 1.3 billion people (a fifth of the world's population Beijing is its capital city. It is a single-party socialist republic that has administrative control over twenty-two provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions.At 9.6 million km2.The head of state of china is Hu Jintao-(THIS IS ACCORDING TO(china wikipedia)

The major human rights ploblem in china before olimpics games-(this is from http://www.2007report.amnest.org)/
An increased number of lawyers and journalists were harassed, detained, and jailed. Thousands of people who pursued their faith outside officially sanctioned churches were subjected to harassment and many to detention and imprisonment. Thousands of people were sentenced to death or executed. Migrants from rural areas were deprived of basic rights. Severe repression of Uighurs in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region continued, and freedom of expression and religion continued to be severely restricted in Tibet and among Tibetans elsewhere.

Some concrete examples of individual cases in china according to web site of amnesty internation-The death penalty continued to be used extensively to punish around 68 crimes, including economic and non-violent crimes. Based on public reports, AI estimated that at least 1,010 people were executed and 2,790 sentenced to death during 2006, although the true figures were believed to be much higher
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The National People's Congress passed a law reinstating a final review of all death penalty cases by the Supreme People's Court from 2007. Commentators believed this would lead to a reduction in miscarriages of justice and use of the death penalty.

Executions by lethal injection rose, facilitating the extraction of organs from executed prisoners, a lucrative business. In November a deputy minister announced that the majority of transplanted organs came from executed prisoners. In July new regulations banned the buying and selling of organs and required written consent from donors for organ removal.•

Xu Shuangfu, the leader of an unofficial Protestant group called "Three Grades of Servants", was executed along with 11 others in November after being convicted of murdering 20 members of another group, "Eastern Lightning", in 2003-4. Xu Shuangfu reportedly claimed that he had confessed under torture during police interrogation and that the torture had included beatings with heavy chains and sticks, electric shocks to the toes, fingers and genitals and forced injection of hot pepper, gasoline and ginger into the nose.

Both the first instance and appeal courts reportedly refused to allow his lawyers to introduce these allegations as evidence in his defence.

THIS IS HOW HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA THE REPORTS BEFORE 2008 OLIMPICS GAMES

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