New book, titled Collected Remarks by Xi Jinping on Respecting and Protecting Human Rights, includes 2014 speech to party leaders instructing them how to respond to criticism from Western countries.
Beijing, Dec.18.– New book publication coincides with the latest clash on values between Beijing and the West with competing for virtual summits.
Chinese officials should “resolutely hit back” whenever confronted by the West on human rights, President Xi Jinping instructed China’s ruling elite in 2014, a new book has revealed.
Authorities in Viet Nam must immediately release four activists jailed this week for spreading anti-State propaganda, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday: We call for the immediate release of 4 rights defenders convicted of spreading anti-State propaganda and of all those arbitrarily detained for exercising their rights to freedom of expression & opinion. This has chilling effects on media freedom: http://ow.ly/RuCh50HcXG
United Nations, Dec.17.– Over a three-day period, prominent human rights defenders Trinh Ba Phoung, Nguyen Thi Tam, Do Nam Trung, and independent author Pham Doan Trang, were sentenced to up to a decade in jail, and five years on probation.
Silence and intimidate
Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said OHCHR was “deeply troubled” by the harsh sentencing of the human rights and land rights defenders, who were charged under articles 88 and 117 of Viet Nam's Criminal Code.
Berta Soler y Guillermo Fariñas denuncian, en una carta al presidente del Parlamento Europeo, el abandono a la sociedad civil por parte del Servicio de Acción Exterior Europeo (SEAE) mientras se cometen crímenes de lesa humanidad por parte del régimen cubano.
La Habana, Dic. 10.– En carta remitida este 8 de diciembre a David Sassoli, presidente del Parlamento Europeo (PE), y a miembros del PE, Berta Soler, líder de las Damas de Blanco, y Guillermo Farinas, coordinador general del Foro Antitotalitario Unido (FANTU), ambos premio Sájarov 2005 y 2010), respectivamente, afirmaron que valorarían solicitar la retirada de la distición en caso de persistir el abandono de la sociedad civil por parte del Servicio de Acción Exterior Europeo (SEAE) mientras se cometen crímenes de lesa humanidad por parte del régimen cubano.
«Estos premios se otorgan (por parte del PE) a las personas y pueblos que luchan, desde las más paupérrimas condiciones, por lo más sagrado del hombre, los derechos humanos más fundamentales como la expresión, y en el caso de Cuba el derecho a no ser objeto permanente de crímenes de lesa humanidad.