Civil Rights Violations in China

A civil rights issue that nobody brings up is the online and real life censorship, among other civil rights issues, occurring in China right now. Since President Xi Jinping took office around 5 years ago, human rights offenses have been on the rising and show no sign of stopping. President Jinping is supposed to stay in power until 2022, but outside countries aren’t doing much to help out Chinese citizens. Recently, the government increased its online censorship to strengthen its control over mass media, and what can be taught in schools. Schools and state media constantly praise the president and his party, the Chinese Communist Party. The government doesn’t only hold control over the media through censorship, they also are able to broadcast whatever they want. Throughout 2017, China broadcast the trials of human rights defenders, including foreigners, and of course showed them to be guilty of terrible crimes. However, the government forced confessions out of plaintiff witnesses through torture, denying them access to lawyers of their choice, and denying them communication to the outside world for months at a time. So not only does China censor through media, but they censor real humans voices as well.
In July of 2017, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo died in a hospital from cancer while he was being heavily guarded by state security. He was serving the 9th year of an 11 year sentence for “inciting subversion,” a crime human rights activists are commonly charged for. China denied his request to seek treatment in a different country, and isolated him from his wife, family, and supporters. Since his death, they have forcibly disappeared his wife, Liu Xia. Along with this, the government hounded and jailed some of Xiaobo supporters for commemorating his death.

There are real human rights violations happening in China as we speak, and very little is being done to help citizens from outside countries. We need the UN and countries that value human rights, such as the United States, and the countries of the EU to step in to make a difference. If we don’t do anything soon, it will only get worse for the citizens of China.

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