China’s Cruelty: Daily Brief
- China harasses activists.
- Migrants in Libya face violence.
- Autocratic Hungarian leader supports Kazakhstan president amid protests.
- Guantanamo represents decades of injustice.
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Zhang Qing, wife of prominent Chinese human rights activist Guo Feixiong, passed away on January 10 in a hospital in the United States after a lengthy illness. Guo, who had previously been harassed because of his activism, wrote a letter to China’s leadership, pleading with them to let him travel to care for his wife. Instead, authorities forcibly disappeared Guo in December, and his whereabouts remain unknown.
Migrants in Libya are facing brutal violence. Thousands of migrants camping in the streets of Tripoli were recently rounded up by security forces and detained in poor conditions in Ain Zara prison. In October, armed groups attacked the camps, tore down shelters and detained migrants. The migrants were left to fend for themselves in the streets.
Kazakhstan recently authorized a ruthless ‘shoot without warning’ order on anti-government protestors. Now, another repressive government, Hungary, has expressed support for Kazakhstan president.
20 years on, Guantánamo remains one of the most enduring symbols of the injustice that the US unleashed in response to the 9/11 attacks. The US government’s reliance on due process failures, has not only violated the rights of the men held at Guantánamo, it also has deprived survivors of the September 11 attacks and families of the dead of their right to justice.
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