Human Rights: China issues report on US human rights

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China has published a report on America's human rights situation, in response to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2017, which was issued by the US last Friday. CGTN's Rory Coen has more.

"Human Rights Record of the United States in 2017" -- the paper just published by the Chinese State Council's Information Office.

It notes that on the evening of October 1st last, almost 60 people were killed and more than 800 injured in a mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest in modern US history.

It also referred to the white nationalist rally in the city of Charlottesville last August, which was said to be the biggest hate rally in decades.

The report cited research by the US website Crime-Reports, which publishes police crime data. It said African-Americans were seven times more likely to be wrongly convicted of homicide than white people, with the term of imprisonment for the same crimes being on average about 20 percent longer.

According to official statistics from the US Census Bureau, more than 40 million people are living in poverty. Nearly half of them are said to be in "deep poverty". The British Broadcasting Corporation said more than 13 million of them were children, nearly a fifth of America's total.

China's report also cited a survey ran by American academics where most of the respondents believed that American democracy has failed, while a New York Times report said American democracy is "drowning in money".

Meanwhile it referred to how US-led military operations in other countries have caused heavy civilian casualties; the Guantanamo Bay detention camp continued to detain and torture foreigners; and the US also made cyber-warfare tools, and hacked into and spied on foreign networks. Rory Coen, CGTN.