Politics News

Mo asked:


1) Osama Bin Laden (leader of Al Qaeda)?
2) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (president of Iran)?
3) Kim Il-sung (president of North Korea)?
4) Fidel Castro (president of Cuba)?
5) Hugo Chávez (president of Venezuela)?
6) Vladimir Putin (president of Russia)?
7) Hu Jintao (president of the People’s Republic of China)? Sr. Gen. Than Shwe (chairman of the SPDC of Myanmar)?
9) Jacques Chirac (president of France)?
10) G. Bush?

Chairman_Mao asked:


CHINA
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Head of state: Hu Jintao
Head of government: Wen Jiabao
Death penalty: retentionist
International Criminal Court: not ratified

An increased number of lawyers and journalists were harassed, detained, and jailed. Thousands of people who pursued their faith outside officially sanctioned churches were subjected to harassment and many to detention and imprisonment. Thousands of people were sentenced to death or executed. Migrants from rural areas were deprived of basic rights. Severe repression of Uighurs in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region continued, and freedom of expression and religion continued to be severely restricted in Tibet and among Tibetans elsewhere.

International community
Before China’s election to the new UN Human Rights Council, it made a number of human rights-related pledges, including ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and active co-operation with the UN on human rights.
http://thereport.amnesty.org/eng/Regions/Asia-Pacific/China