Beijing, 21 feb (EFE).- The Chinese Government continues to enact new laws to silence dissent, censurar información y hostigar a defensores de los derechos humanos bajo el pretexto de salvaguardar la "seguridad nacional", Amnesty International warned today (AI).
In its annual report, la organización detalló un gran número de detenciones y condenas a activistas y defensores de los derechos humanos sobre la base de acusaciones "vagas y demasiado amplias", como "subvertir el poder del Estado" y "provocar peleas y crear problemas".
During the past year, highlighted the death in custody of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, after being refused the chance to travel abroad to receive medical treatment for his cancer.
Liu, died in July, was serving a sentence of 11 years in prison for promoting a manifesto that called for a democratic opening. Now, is his widow, Liu Xia, quien permanece bajo arresto domiciliario "ilegal", AI complaint.
She further , las autoridades chinas continúan utilizando "la vigilancia domiciliara en un lugar designado", a form of secret incommunicado detention that allows the Police to hold people for up to six months without access to a lawyer or their family, "con el consiguiente peligro de que sufran tortura y otros malos tratos".
The organization also reported that thousands of web pages and social networks remain blocked in the Asian country., including Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, while recent legislation forces internet companies to censor user content.
During the past year, The repression of religious activities of cults not recognized by the State also increased., such as the Tibetan Buddhist, who continue to suffer discrimination and restrictions on the rights to freedom of religion, opinion, expression, peaceful assembly and association.
La represión en el marco de campañas "contra el separatismo" o "antiterroristas" siguió siendo "especialmente dura" in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, Muslim majority.
AI también denunció la entrada en vigor de diferentes normativas para "silenciar a la disidencia, censurar información y hostigar y procesar a los defensores y defensoras de los derechos humanos", and all of them lack protection of privacy or freedom of expression.
For example, from the past 1 January, with the Foreign Non-Governmental Organization Management Law, NGOs that were not yet registered and continued to operate in China could have their bank accounts frozen, closure of premises, confiscation of property, suspension of activities and detention of personnel.
The report also mentioned the arrests of three labor rights activists who were investigating working conditions at a shoe factory that produces shoes for Huajian's Ivanka Trump brand. (it is).
Regarding the death penalty, AI cree que el Gobierno chino "continua ocultando la verdadera magnitud de su uso", despite the fact that the United Nations bodies and the international community have been 40 years asking for more information.
