China has failed to live up to promises to improve human rights for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, an Amnesty International report claimed today.
Amnesty has catalogued a range of human rights abuses, including use of detention-without-trial by police, persecution of civil-rights activists, the reining in of the domestic media and internet censorship.
The London-based group said the referring of all death sentences to China's Supreme Court since the start of the year and new rules for foreign journalists were welcome changes, however.
China has denounced previous Amnesty International reports, saying it was fulfilling all the commitments made in its bid for the Games.
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