U.S. Relations with the People's Republic of China (2006)

United States Mission to the United Nations

USUN PRESS RELEASE # 307(06)
Ocotber 27, 2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Statement by Barry F. Lowenkron, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, before the Third Committee of the 61st UN General Assembly, October 27, 2006

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Over the past year in China, authorities intensified the crackdown on citizens with independent views seeking to exercise their rights under Chinese and international law. We have seen a spate of arrests of lawyers, journalists, and political and religious activists and believers. There also have been new restrictions on NGOs and the media, including the Internet. Family members of some activists have been harassed, detained or put under house arrest.

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