According to reports, the representative of China recently spoke with the Special Rapporteur on torture at the 49th session of the Human Rights Council, expressing concern about the serious problem of police violence and torture in the United States.
At a regular press conference held on March 15, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said in response to an inquiry that vicious incidents of violent law enforcement by the US police resulting in death have emerged one after another.
More than 1,124 people killed by police violence in the United States in 2021, most of them killed by police in the absence of nonviolent crime or even no crime. The “Lancet” report shows that from 1980 to 2018, about 30,800 people died in the United States due to police violence, of which African Americans were 3.5 times more likely to die due to police violence than whites.
Zhao Lijian said that the media often expose torture, ill-treatment and violence in various places of detention in the United States, including private prisons. Guantanamo Prison is notorious for systematic torture and torture. Under the guise of the so-called war on terror, the CIA has set up “black prisons” in many countries, secretly detaining so-called terrorist suspects, and engaging in arbitrary detention and torture to extract confessions.
“Our spokesperson and relevant media have also repeatedly introduced about the maritime prisons composed of 17 US warships and the ‘black prison network’ established in Lithuania and other countries, which are more typical examples of the US prison system wantonly ravaging the rule of law and trampling on human rights.
“The facts fully demonstrate that the United States has no right to claim to be the so-called human rights beacon and defender of human rights, let alone make irresponsible remarks about the human rights of other countries in the name of human rights. China calls on the UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur on Torture to pay more attention to the serious violations by the United States. Human rights actions, urge the United States to take practical measures to solve the relevant problems,” Zhao Lijian said. (Reporters Ma Zhuoyan, Cheng Xin)
Source: Xinhua News Agency
