Human Rights

HRW warns China attacking global rights

Human Rights Watch cautioned that China is using its economic muscle to silence critics at home and increasingly abroad through organizations and treaties.

, and John Heilprin

January 14, 2020 . 9:47 PM

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Yang Jianli, a U.S.-educated Chinese mathematician and political economist who founded Citizen Power Initiatives for China, addresses the 2015 Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy (AN/Eric Bridiers)

UNITED NATIONS (AN) — Human Rights Watch cautioned in a report on Tuesday that China is using its growing economic muscle to silence critics at home and increasingly abroad through foreign investment, international organizations and treaties.

The New York based-organization's 335-page annual review of human rights worldwide grabbed headlines after its executive director, Kenneth Roth, was denied entry to Hong Kong where he planned to release it. He said on Twitter that "authorities just turned me away at the Hong Kong airport so I wouldn't hold a Human Rights Watch press conference about Beijing's assault on human rights."