The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, On a screen.
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From the Tiananmen massacre in 1989, Human Rights in China They live The worst repression remembered. Assures this newspaper Thubten Wangchen, Buddhist monk and member of the Tibetan Parliament in exile: "Desde que Xi Jinping llegó al poder, Everything has gone worse. Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong… Pekín está siendo extremadamente duro contra todo aquel que no sea leal a la política del Partido Comunista Chino".
The Hongkonese activist also said Joshua Wong antes de entrar en prisión en diciembre por "acudir y organizar" An unauthorized assembly. "La China de Xi Jinping es la que se ve en Hong Kong, creating a new era of terror reign, with arbitrary prosecutions, Secret judgments, forced confessions, mass surveillance, represiones a los medios y censura política".
This Wednesday, has been the annual report of the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) which details how human rights in China live su "periodo más oscuro" since what happened in Tiananmen. "El empeoramiento de las persecuciones de las minorías étnicas en Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Tibet, attacks against whistleblowers, la represión de Hong Kong y los intentos de encubrir el brote de coronavirus fueron parte del deterioro de la situación bajo el presidente Xi Jinping", reads a report 386 pages.
"El autoritarismo del Gobierno chino estuvo en plena exhibición en 2020 mientras lidiaba con el brote de coronavirus mortal informado por primera vez en la provincia de Wuhan", continue. After, quote examples as what happened he 1 January last year, cuando la policía de Wuhan detuvo y amonestó a "ocho personas por difundir rumores falsos" About strange pneumonia that was spreading through the city. Among those people was the doctor Li Wenliang, who became famous for being the First known doctor who warned of the danger of the new coronavirus, But he was silenced by the police. Later, would die from COVID-19.
Also, Chinese authorities They have persecuted and arrested the so -called citizen journalists, quienes estuvieron en el epicentro de la pandemia "informando de manera independiente". This is the case of the blogger Zhang Zhan, Four years in prison sentenced in December por "buscar altercados y provocar problemas". And that of other citizen journalists, missing since the beginning of the year, como Chen Qiushi y Fang Bin, who published videos on YouTube narrating the day to day life in the saturated hospitals of Wuhan.
The HRW report highlights that 2020 It has been the year in which all kinds of international reports on Beijing's repression against the Uighur Muslim minority in the Xinjiang region. internment camps, destruction of mosques, forced labor…
"En Xinjiang, Muslims continue to be arbitrarily detained on the basis of their identity, mientras que otros son sometidos a vigilancia masiva y adoctrinamiento político". and in Mongolia Interior. "Las protestas estallaron en septiembre cuando las autoridades educativas decidieron reemplazar el mongol por el chino mandarín en varias clases en las escuelas de la región", they say from the NGO. For the researcher Yaqiu Wang, de hrw, in all aspects of Chinese society "se puede ver cómo el partido se está volviendo más intolerante con cualquier tipo de actividad independiente".
Following this, there has also been a critical reaction from other countries towards China. Were 122 nations that requested a independent investigation in Wuhan into the origin of the coronavirus. The United States passed numerous laws against China's abuses. United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand they broke the extradition treaties for the attack on Hong Kong's freedoms. Y 39 Countries condemned Beijing's repression against the Uyghurs before the UN. But the Government of Xi Jinping has responded with sanctions and pressure on nations that denounce their authoritarian practices.
