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Pictures and the site I found them on...Thank you so much!! wwp.greenwichmeantime.com www.daylife.com [|www.boston.com/.../Dalai%20Lama] [|www.monash.edu.au/.../images/map-of-china] [|www.product-reviews.net/.../2008olympicgames] Information below from... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2469078/Beijing-Olympics-Human-rights-abuses-getting-worse.html In a report that alleges that repression has actually increased rather than eased off as the Games approach, the group accuses China of restricting human rights rather than using the Games as an opportunity to improve the situation, as Beijing promised when it was awarded the Olympics in 2001. "The Olympic values have been betrayed by the Chinese government," said Tim Hancock, Amnesty's UK campaigns director. "They must release all imprisoned peaceful activists, allow foreign and national journalists to report freely and make further progress towards the elimination of the death penalty - or risk permanently sullying the legacy of the Olympics." Amnesty's claims were rejected by the Chinese government. "Anybody who knows about China will not agree on this report on the deterioration of the Chinese human rights situation," said the foreign ministry's chief spokesman, Liu Jianchao. Although the International Olympic Committee refuses to link political issues such as human rights to the Games, China made one very public promise at the time it was awarded them seven years ago. "We are confident that the Games coming to China not only promote our economy but also enhance all social conditions, including education, health and human rights," said Wang Wei, head of the bid committee. But according to the Amnesty report, the authorities have extended the use of imprisonment without trial - a legal measure called "re-education through labour", and other means to keep protesters and activists out of sight in the run-up to the Games. "The Chinese authorities have locked up, put under house arrest, and forcibly removed individuals they perceive may threaten the image of 'stability and harmony' they want to present to the world," Amnesty says. It also alleges that the country still uses the death penalty for 68 criminal offences, including a number of non-violent crimes, and says that the government has tightened control over foreign correspondents since abandoning formal reporting restrictions in January last year. It quoted the examples of protests and riots in Tibet in March, where whole areas of the country were shut off from journalists as widespread arrests were made, and the Sichuan earthquake, where an opening up to the outside world was followed by a tightening as journalists took up the cases of those with grievances against the government. The report acknowledged there had been reforms to death penalty laws, where higher courts have to validate sentences and have struck down a substantial number, and in the agreement to abandon foreign correspondents' restrictions at least until after the Games. Mr Hancock called on high-profile visitors to the Games to put pressure on the government to release prisoners of conscience. "World leaders attending the Games, even if it's only the closing ceremony, should send an unequivocal message that they support human rights for the Chinese people," he said.

Information below from... http://www.answers.com/topic/human-rights The basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled, often held to include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.

Information below from... http://en.epochtimes.com/news/8-5-8/70451.html International human rights lawyer David Matas focused on Bloody Harvest, a report he co-authored with Kilgour on the illicit harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners' organs in China. Since an previous report in 2006, the authors have identified numerous new forms of proof that large-scale organ theft is taking place. Matas said that China is now focusing more on selling these organs to its citizens rather than to transplant tourists, as was the case until recently. Guo Guoting, a Chinese national who was jailed twice in China for defending peoples' rights, explained that lawyers, authors, and journalists are heavily persecuted in China. Guoting was one of only two human rights lawyers in all of China in 2003. He was also the first lawyer in China to represent a Falun Gong practitioner, for which he lost his job and was imprisoned for two and one-half years. "If a human rights lawyer in China can't even protect himself, how can ordinary people be protected by the law? There are no human rights in China."

Information below from... http://china.hrw.org/press/faq/beijing_olympics_basics The Chinese government also violates the fundamental rights of its citizens through widespread use of the death penalty, restrictions on freedom of expression and religion and widespread violations of labor rights. Strict internet and media censorship is enforced by government agencies and the largest internet police in the world. In Tibet, expressions of support for the exiled Dalai Lama and suspicion of “separatist” activities routinely result in the imprisonment of Tibetans, many of them Buddhist monks and nuns.

Information below from... http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080808.wessay0908/BNStory/International/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20080808.wessay0908 Back in 2001, China promised to behave and improve its human-rights records, in exchange for hosting the Games, but has broken its promises; there is more repression of Tibetans and other minorities, more jailing of dissidents, more harassment of the foreign press, more pollution, more censorship; in short, China is not democratizing. Few people I have talked to during my frequent visits to China accept the story that their country is worse off in terms of human rights than in 2001. We can put aside the government's self-promoting claims, but well-informed Chinese believe that China has made considerable strides in human rights in the past seven years. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations recognizes freedom from poverty as a major category of human rights. China has lifted some 100 million people out of poverty. Despite severe limitations, there are hundreds of new legislative enactments that protect property rights and workers' rights. China has abolished a system that restricted freedom of movement among regions, and citizens can hold on to their passports to travel abroad. The Supreme People's Court now reviews all death sentences. The children of migrant workers can go to school in the urban centres where their parents work. And China has joined more international human-rights treaties. The Chinese enjoy more freedom than at any time in recent history. Ordinary Chinese people enthusiastically support the Beijing Olympics, contrary to many critics who label the Games as a government propaganda showcase. Others, more moderately, have complained that neither human-rights groups nor the Western news media are doing a good job in highlighting China's human rights-problems, with the result that this Olympic year will be a sadly missed opportunity. To have counted on the Beijing Olympics to deliver a fast political miracle inside China, or anything else that the outside world might have wanted, was both unrealistic and shortsighted. We need to ask: What happens to China, to all the problems and challenges it faces at the end of this month //Wenran Jiang is the acting director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta and a senior fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.//

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