HUMAN rights violations in the People's Republic of China (PRC) remain systematic and widespread.
According to Amnesty International, the major human rights problems in China before the Olympic Games were abuses, arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment of prisoners, severe restrictions on freedom of expression and death penalty.
One of the examples of the concrete individual cases about human rights in China is about Shuang Shuying who is a 76-year old evictions petitioner, religious rights activist, and outspoken opponent of the Reeducation-Through-Labor (RTL) system.
According to Amnesty International Shuang saw her Beijing home demolished in 2002 to make way for Olympics redevelopment. After the demolition, her family had to relocate eight times.
She has been imprisoned since February 2007 on trumped-up charges after appealing for her son's release. When she began her prison term, Shuang was suffering from high blood pressure, diabetes, and a heart condition. The authorities have denied her family's request for medical parole, and her health continues to deteriorate
Apart from her, other example of individual problem of human right in China is Shi Tao who was a freelance writer, journalist, and head of the news division at the daily Dangdai Shangbao (Contemporary Business News) in Changsha, Hunan Province.
He had also written numerous essays for overseas Internet forums, including one entitled "The Most Disgusting Day," in which he criticized the Chinese government for the March 28 detention of Ding Zilin, a Tiananmen Mothers activist whose son was killed during the 1989 democracy movement.
On April 20, 2004, Shi attended a Dangdai Shangbao staff meeting in which the contents of a Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Propaganda Bureau document about security concerns and preparation for the upcoming 15th anniversary of the June 4th crackdown were discussed.
That evening, Shi used his personal Yahoo! e-mail account to send his notes about this meeting to the New York-based website, Democracy Forum. He was ultimately detained for this action on November 24, 2004. On April 27, 2005, Shi was tried for "illegally providing state secrets overseas" under Article 111 of the Criminal Law. Because the document was certified a "top secret" state secret, he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment following a brief trial conducted entirely behind closed doors.
And the other individual concrete example is Mao She has been an activist and petitioner for 20 years. She was dismissed from her soap factory job in 1988 when she refused to abort a second pregnancy, and since that time has petitioned the government for redress on that dismissal and subsequent abuses, including forcible eviction.
As a result of petitioning, she has been forcibly admitted to a psychiatric hospital three times, detained multiple times, and served a one-and-a-half year sentence of Reeducation-Through-Labor (RTL).
In the first half of 2006, Mao was twice detained and placed under "residential surveillance." During her detention, she broke two table lamps and other objects, damage for which she is now serving prison time. Mao has been subject to a range of humiliating abuses in prison.
With these examples and many others the Amnesty International hopes that with Beijing hosting this year’s Olympic Games the event can create a positive human rights legacy for China. And the Chinese authorities pledged that human rights would improve through the hosting of the Games.
So according to these human right problems in China, Amnesty International has call upon China to cease the arbitrary detention, intimidation or harassment of human rights activists and other human rights problems I have mentioned above.
While the number of executions in China is dropping, the country remains the world leader in the use of the death penalty still..
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