{"id":4454,"date":"2008-08-24T16:20:47","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T15:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=4454"},"modified":"2008-08-24T16:20:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T15:20:47","slug":"us-attacks-chinas-human-rights-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/surveillance-big-brother\/us-attacks-chinas-human-rights-record\/","title":{"rendered":"US attacks China&#8217;s human rights record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioaustralia.net.au\/news\/stories\/200808\/s2344932.htm?tab=latest\">ABC<\/a> | The United States has launched a strongly-worded attack on China&#8217;s human rights record just hours before the Closing Ceremony of the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>In a written statement from its ambassador to China, the United States has attacked China&#8217;s human rights performance during the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>The statement also called for the immediate release of eight American pro-Tibet demonstrators who have been sentenced to ten to fourteen days detention for protesting in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Clark Randt said: &#8220;We are disappointed that China has not used the occasion of the Olympics to demonstrate greater tolerance and openness&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The detainees have reportedly not claimed any mistreatment.<\/p>\n<p>The British Government says one of its citizens has also received a 10 day sentence for protesting about Tibet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC | The United States has launched a strongly-worded attack on China&#8217;s human rights record just hours before the Closing Ceremony of the Olympics. In a written statement from its ambassador to China, the United States has attacked China&#8217;s human rights performance during the Olympic Games. The statement also called for the immediate release of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1614],"tags":[64],"class_list":{"0":"post-4454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surveillance-big-brother","7":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}