Human Rights Watch slams China's 'appalling year' of violations

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'To crack down on whistleblowers and citizen-journalists at this particular moment ... helps highlight to the rest of the world what the consequences of violations inside China can be,' Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch (HRW), said after the release of the group's World Report 2021. HRW Executive Director Kenneth Roth told Reuters Television in Geneva that China remained the biggest threat to global human rights and that President Xi Jinping had 'embarked on the most intense repression' in the country since the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989.

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