Appalling News From China
by If in China, they are to be a new power, the Authorities should be forced to respect the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
If we still have doubts about human rights being respected in China, here we have some of the latest news. Their government have just decided to ban a TV programme called Interviews Before Dying. It is the most popular programme in the province of Henan, which is also one of the poorest ones in China. Every evening several millions of people sat to watch an interview to a person who was most probably going to face death right after being interviewed. The presenter seems to be quite a celebrity in the area and she’s known as “The beauty among the beasts”. All the prisoners have been judged without being seen a lawyer. When they appear on TV, they are handcuffed in both hands and feet. The presenter defended such a programme that in a modern country would have been regarded as “rubbish TV” as one to educate people and to convince them on not taking the wrong path.
However, wherever there is sheer poverty, there will always be crime. A person may have killed or stolen or whatever, but this person is still entitled to have a fair trial and its own defence. On the other hand, we have seen way too often that death penalty doesn’t help in any country to keep crime figures low, but quite the opposite. Even sending those with a sentence to jail won’t help them to improve themselves for when they go out. But quite the opposite, when they leave jail they are likely to do the same things all over again.
It is enough with being deprived of freedom, but staying in a jail to complete a sentence should help the prisoner to learn things so they can be apart from crime when they leave.
Jails are overcrowded.
Prisoners are at the mercy of guards’ moods and punishment for petty issues occur day in and day out.
There is lack of hygienic conditions.
The fact that they are prisoners completing a sentence doesn’t mean that they have to ill-treated or even tortured.
China is about to become a new financial power. The Chinese make up half the world population. Therefore, I find it quite scary that in such a country there is such lack of respect for human rights.
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Post Commentmarqjonz
On March 18, 2012 at 2:02 pm
I hadn’t heard about this television show. Of course there are multiple human rights violations here. How much coercion is involved?
Aroosa Gloomy
On March 18, 2012 at 2:10 pm
I didn’t know >
AmosTheCat
On March 18, 2012 at 4:22 pm
Very good article. The hard working Chinese people deserve better than that. Thank you for keeping us informed.
lovinglyoursjuny
On March 19, 2012 at 12:16 am
Thanks for this info
brid collins
On March 21, 2012 at 6:11 am
Look at what the Chinese have done to the monks and people of Tibet !
Remember Tiananmen Square ,when the army mowed down hundreds of the Chinese students , teachers and protesters with their tanks !
Their human rights record is appalling .