Image for article Urgent: Ms. Li Yan-hua Persecuted to Death; The Lives of Another 60 Practitioners Detained in Nan-chang Labor Camp Are in Danger

Ms. Li Yan-hua, 45, a former employee of the Feng-long Corporation affiliated to the Airplane-Manufacturing Company of Nan-chang City, Jiang-xi Province. She started to practice Falun Gong in March 1998. She was a well-known good employee and kindhearted person.

Image for article Rights Group Deplores U.N. China Move

(Geneva, April 18, 2000) -- Human Rights Watch today strongly deplored the decision of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights not to consider a resolution criticizing China' human rights performance.

Image for article Rights & Democracy condemns lack of censure against China

MONTREAL - April 18, 2000 - The International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, now known as Rights & Democracy, today deplored the United Nations Commission on Human Rights decision not to consider a resolution criticizing China' poor human rights record.

Image for article U.S. Optimistic Despite Geneva Defeat

4-19-2000 (Beijing Timezone)

(ChinaTopNews)-- When the U.N. human rights body decided not to act on a U.S. resolution denouncing China' allegedly deteriorating record, the U.S. delegation put a brave face on the fresh defeat.

Image for article China uses the loophole -- again

Amnesty International NEWS FLASH

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AI INDEX: ASA 17/18/00

18 April 2000

Despite a marked deterioration in human rights in China the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) has again allowed it to stifle debate and escape censure.

Image for article China blocks discussion of rights

April 18, 2000

Filed at 9:27 a.m. EDT

By The Associated Press

GENEVA (AP) -- China today blocked a full-scale review of its human rights record by the U.N. Human Rights Commission despite U.S. criticism.