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The decision shows the fading of freedoms under the pressure of Beijing
(Hong Kong) The authorities of Hong Kong They denied a Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, The entrance to the territory, where he planned to present the World Report 2020 of that organization, Human Rights Watch pointed today. The main trial of the report shows the intensification of the Chinese government offensive against the International Human Rights System. Upon arriving at Hong Kong International Airport 12 of January of 2020, Immigratory authorities indicated to Roth, of American citizenship, that could not enter the country, Without expressing the reason.
"I trusted to show the exacerbation of Beijing's attack against international efforts to defend human rights.", Roth said. "The refusal to allow me to enter Hong Kong clearly shows the problem".
Human Rights Watch had planned to submit its World Report 2020, of 652 pages, During a press conference the 15 January. In the 30th edition of the report, of 335 pages, Human Rights Watch analyzes human rights practices in almost 100 countries. Roth's introductory essay, that every year he addresses a key human rights issue, warns that the Chinese government promotes an intense onslaught against the global human rights recognition system. Now the report is expected to be presented during a press conference 14 January at the United Nations headquarters, In New York.
Roth had visited Hong Kong on numerous opportunities in the past, Even for the presentation of a Human Rights Watch report on gender discrimination in the Chinese labor market, in April 2018.
He 2 December 2019, An official of the China Ministry of Foreign Affairs threatened to impose “sanctions” not specified to Human Rights Watch and several organizations based in the US. UU. that promote democracy. Since then, Neither the authorities of Beijing nor those of Hong Kong have given details.
Hong Kong's immigration authorities have denied access to the city to visitors who criticize the continental government and Hong Kong government, Including an American photographer who documented protests in Hong Kong in January 2020; American academic Dan Garrett in September 2019; Tianmén Feng Congde leader, Exiled in the US. His., In June of 2019; And one of the founders of Hong Kong Watch, Benedict Rogers of the United Kingdom, In October of 2017.
“This disappointing measure is another sign that Beijing is intensifying the oppressive control over Hong Kong and continues to cut the little margin of freedom that the population of Hong Kong has in the framework of the policy‘ a country, two systems ’", Roth pointed out. "Governments should adopt a firm position in the face of China's progressive repression against which crowds have been manifested in recent months.".
For more than 70 years, The International Human Rights System has guaranteed fundamental rights and freedoms to millions of people around the world, like the independent media that question those in power, Fair legal systems, Education and health care, and access to clean water and air, inter alia. These rights are increasingly secured as Beijin tries to extend their repression globally. And people throughout China who want to live with freedom and dignity face the most severe repression registered in decades by the government of President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party.
“That they have denied me the entrance to China is an insignificant act compared to the harassment of Chinese activists, as imprisonment, torture and forced disappearances just for trying to recognize basic rights to their fellow citizens ”, Roth said. "China's efforts to hinder the work of international organizations such as Human Rights Watch constitutes a form of global censorship to which governments should oppose before it is too late".
