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Article: Keeping the pressure on: human rights in China. (Column)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- November 3, 1993
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THE WORLD community has protested China's human rights abuses by denying its request to host the Olympic Summer Games in the year 2000. Human Rights Watch and many other nongovernmental groups worked diligently to bring about the 45-to-43 vote that sent the Olympics to Sydney instead of Beijing. But that refusal may make it more difficult to monitor and correct abuses.
In preparing for the September decision on the Olympics the People's Republic of China sought to improve its reputation: it released a few pelitical prisoners and lifted some repressive measures. Now China will probably return to the authoritarianism and denial of human rights that has ...