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	Human rights abuses by Hong Kong police - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although police officers from Hong Kong Police are being described by some locals as "licensed thugs" (有牌爛仔), documented human right abuses committed by Hong Kong Police are mainly concentrated on the handling of peaceful demonstrations, police brutality leading to death in custody, and its accountability to the public.
		In the meanwhile violent police officers involved in such cases are believed to be let go of lightly by courts, assisted by prosecuters who intentionally charge them with the lighter offence of grievous bodily harm, instead of torture which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment under local legislation.
		Unlike their counterparts in some democratic countries like the United Kingdom where all regional police forces are governed by a police authority which consists of elected local councilors and local members of the public, HKP only reports to the Security Bureau of HKSAR government, headed by appointed civil servants from the executive branch of government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_rights_abuses_by_Hong_Kong_police (1342 words)

	Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1999 - Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Human rights groups have called repeatedly for a more independent monitoring body, noting long delays in hearing some allegations, the contrast between the relatively large number of complaints and the few that are substantiated, and the unwillingness of witnesses to substantiate complaints to the police for fear of retribution.
		Two additional right of abode cases, one dealing with the rights of adopted children and the other with mainlanders who sought to exercise their right of abode without mainland-issued documents permitting them to remain in Hong Kong were heard by the Court of Final Appeal in October.
		Residents' right to change their government is limited by voting regulations that provide for the election of the Chief Executive by an appointed selection committee of 400, the direct election of only a limited number of Legislative Council members, and the addition of appointed members to the elected district boards and municipal councils.
	www.usemb.se /human/human1999/hongkong.html (11215 words)

	China (Includes Hong Kong and Macau)
		To curb the practice, the magazine called for the right to remain silent; the right for suspects to give direct testimony in their own trials; and the right for a defense attorney to be present during police questioning.
		Police continue to hold individuals without granting access to family or a lawyer, and trials continue to be conducted in secret.
		Police ordered several dissidents not to meet with foreign journalists or foreign diplomats during the period it was announced that Beijing would host the 2008 Summer Olympics or during the visit of a high-level foreign official in July.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/eap/8289.htm (19358 words)

	Chapter 13, Section 2- Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Human rights groups have called repeatedly for a more independent monitoring body noting long delays in hearing some allegations, the contrast between the relatively large number of complaints and the few that are substantiated, and the unwillingness of witnesses to substantiate complaints to the police due to fear of retribution.
		Human rights and lawyers' organizations have expressed concern that, if broadly applied and loosely interpreted, these exceptions to the Court of Final Appeal's power of final jurisdiction could be used to limit the independence of the judiciary.
		Residents' right to change their government is limited by voting regulations that provide for the election of the Chief Executive by an appointed selection committee of 400, the direct election of only a limited number of Legislative Council members, and the addition of indirectly elected members to the elected district boards and municipal councils.
	www.ibiblio.org /chinesehistory/contents/c13s02.html (7820 words)

	China (includes Tibet, Hong Kong, and Macau)
		Citizens did not have the right to change their government, and many who openly expressed dissenting political views were harassed, detained, or imprisoned, particularly in a campaign late in the year against writers, religious activists, dissidents, and petitioners to the Central Government.
		Abuses included instances of extrajudicial killings; torture and mistreatment of prisoners, leading to numerous deaths in custody; coerced confessions; arbitrary arrest and detention; and incommunicado detention.
		She reportedly was held with drug addicts who were allowed to abuse her, was strapped to her bed for hours at time, was force-fed an unidentified medicine that turned her mouth fl, and, on one occasion, had her limbs pulled in different directions for a period of 2 days.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41640.htm (18501 words)

	China - Amnesty International
		Some legal reforms were introduced, including new regulations aimed at preventing torture in police custody and an amendment to the Constitution in March stating that “the state respects and protects human rights.” However, the failure to introduce necessary institutional reforms severely compromised the enforcement of these measures in practice.
		The authorities continued to engage in “human rights dialogue” with other countries, but suspended their dialogue with the USA after the latter proposed a resolution on China at the UN Commission on Human Rights in March.
		Kong Youping, a leading member of the Chinese Democratic Party and former union activist in Liaoning province, was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment in September for “subversion”.
	web.amnesty.org /report2005/chn-summary-eng (2701 words)

	Essential Background: Overview of human rights issues in China (Human Rights Watch, 31-12-2003)
		A Human Rights Watch report in September documented widespread discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS, the arbitrary detention of injection drug users who are at high risk of HIV, and restrictions on journalists and AIDS activists.
		A protest in Hong Kong by hundreds of thousands of people on July 1, 2003 led the Hong Kong government to indefinitely table the proposed legislation, and led to the resignation of several Hong Kong officials including Secretary for Security Regina Ip.
		Human Rights Watch has called for a process that includes measurable benchmarks, a timetable for meeting those benchmarks, and transparency about the process.
	hrw.org /english/docs/2003/12/31/china7001.htm (2286 words)

	CNN - China: West focuses on rights abuses, ignores progress - January 14, 1999
		BEIJING (CNN) -- China conceded Thursday that its human rights record could be improved, although it also accused its critics of painting "a totally dark picture" of Chinese rights abuses.
		Meanwhile, the latest in a series of Chinese activists to be convicted of crimes against the state plans to appeal his 10- year sentence, a U.S.-based human rights group reported on Thursday.
		The money had been donated by Human Rights in China to help pay for treatment for severe tuberculosis that Zhang contracted when he was previously held in labor camps, the rights group said.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/asiapcf/9901/14/china.rights.02 (1007 words)

	PAKISTAN: Pakistan human rights impeded by military, feudal leaders
		(Hong Kong, December 9, 2004) The continued dominance of the military over all public institutions in Pakistan has done nothing to improve the country's human rights situation over the year, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) says.
		The control of feudal and local leaders over the policing and administration of justice through tribal courts continues to cause gross injustices and rights abuses, the Hong Kong-based regional group notes.
		The AHRC criticises these leaders for being hypocritical as they talk about human rights for all in their official capacities, yet take part in tribal courts in their constituencies.
	www.ahrchk.net /pr/mainfile.php/2004mr/108 (686 words)

	EastSouthWestNorth: Hong Kong Detainee Number SAF02518
		In December 2005, Pan was in Hong Kong during the period of the WTO MC6.
		Two middle-aged Hong Kong women brought two big bags of bread and mineral water into the demonstration area for us (and they had already finished distributing what they had bought previously and this was there second round).
		Just because they did not come to Hong Kong does not mean that they agree with the damages cast upon them by the WTO for they may be fighting in their local areas.
	www.zonaeuropa.com /20060115_1.htm (6078 words)

	Category:Human rights abuses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		China's Human Rights Record of the United States
		Human rights abuses in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon
		United States' Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Human_rights_abuses (98 words)

	China
		By the end of the 18th century only Canton (location of modern-day Hong Kong) and the Portuguese port of Macao were open to European merchants.
		On July 1, 1997, when Britain's lease on the New Territories expired, Hong Kong returned to Chinese sovereignty, and in 1999, the Portuguese colony of Macao also was returned to Chinese rule.
		The police shot and killed about 20 people who were protesting the construction of a power plant in the southern city of Dongzhou in December.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107411.html (2905 words)

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		A local police officer who was hunting and camping close to the base in the game preserve was accosted, roughed up, and warned by the English-speaking unit commander to stay away from the area.
		Police cars were constantly patrolling the several mile perimeter of the area.
		These domestic police operations have illegally been breaking posse commutatus rules, which state that the military is disallowed a police role because of unbridled military power.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/02/281672.shtml (15054 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Epoch Times Commentaries on the Communist Party — Part 6
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		Like its army, prisons, and police force, the Party culture is also a violence machine, which provides a different kind of brutality—“cultural brutality.” This cultural brutality, by destroying 5000 years of traditional culture, has diminished the will of the people, and undermined the cohesiveness of the Chinese nationality.
		The CCP urges that “revolt is justifiable,” and “struggling against human beings is full of joy.” In the name of revolution, the Party could murder and starve to death tens of millions of people.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/4-12-20/25087.html (12494 words)

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		We are making such material available in our efforts to advance the understanding of politics, human rights, the economy, democracy, and social justice issues related to Venezuela.
	www.vheadline.com /section.asp?secid=7 (858 words)

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