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Thousands of dissidents are jailed every year for allegedly endangering state security by engaging in pro-democracy activities or publishing essays on the internet that are seen as subversive.
Tibetan monks and Xinjiang Muslims in northwest China who advocate independence are often targeted by Chinese authorities as terrorists, separatists or religious extremists.
Clergymen and laity from underground Christian communities are also arrested for “endangering public order”.
Opposition to China's communist leadership is growing though, as a stark lack of economic opportunities among the country's 800 million rural dwellers becomes increasingly evident, raising fears of social unrest and turmoil.
Currently, 68 crimes can merit the death penalty in China and most are non-violent. Experts had called for a "kill fewer, kill carefully" policy towards suspects of non-violent crimes, state media said in August.
In a second report to parliament on Wednesday, China's top prosecutor, Jia Chunwang, said more than 800,000 people were arrested for corruption last year.
Tens of thousands had been convicted in cases of embezzlement or dereliction of duty, avoiding potential economic losses of an estimated 4.56 billion yuan ($551 million), Jia said.
Originally posted by sweatmonicaIdo
So let's get out of the Middle East and provoke China into invading Taiwan. Then we got a real "just" war at our hands...
America doesn't need to fight anyone. But just to be pro-war for a moment, the guy we should be fighting is China. Not anybody in the Middle East. That place is best left untouched.
Originally posted by Seekerof
But please, lets continue to focus on how screwed America is and how our freedoms and rights are disappearing, being taken away, etc. or how America has such a dismal Human Rights record, etc., k?!
Originally posted by smallpeeps
Wow Seeker, I gotta give you credit for tracking those pics down. An eye-opening look at capital punishment chinese-style. Those pics are SICK! The look in that woman's eyes is chilling! I won't be able to scrub those images out of my brain for the rest of my life. I guess that's a good thing.
So you think that just because you use lethal injection, that makes you more "humane"?
Originally posted by rapier28
I found it difficult that a country who practices capital punishment can critisize another who also practices capital punishment.
It's the most obvious example of the pot calling the kettle black.
So you think that just because you use lethal injection, that makes you more "humane"?
To date two such studies have been completed. The first National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children (NISMART-1) was released in 1990, and the second, known as NISMART-2, was released in October 2002. According to NISMART-2 research, which studied the year 1999, an estimated 797,500 children were reported missing; 58,200 children were abducted by nonfamily members; 115 children were the victims of the most serious, long-term nonfamily abductions called "stereotypical kidnappings"; and 203,900 children were the victims of family abductions.
According to a 1997 study by the State of Washington’s Office of the Attorney General “the murder of a child who is abducted ... is a rare event. There are estimated to be about 100 such incidents in the United States each year, less than one-half of one percent of the murders committed”; however, “74 percent of abducted children who are murdered are dead within three hours of the abduction.”
Originally posted by rapier28
The women executed is a normal criminal, not a political dissident.
Originally posted by Bleys
Are you advocating the execution of common or normal criminals then?
Originally posted by Bleys
It is disappointing that criticism is only reserved for the US or UK...
Originally posted by Bleys
is it racial, is someone afraid of offending the Chinese govt. or is it that no one cares about the average Chinese citizen?
Originally posted by rapier28Unless, i'am mistaken greatly, the US also commits capital punishment, correct?