Human Rights The Cost Of A ‘Crowd-Pleasing’ G20 Summit In China

Vikrant

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China has been steadily silencing the criticism of its human rights violations.

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China says its G20 Summit was a huge victory, but to achieve success, it launched an intense campaign to silence potential troublemakers.

China supposedly detained journalists, put dissidents under house arrest, sent city residents away, and implemented extreme censorship protocols to ensure the summit held in Hangzhou this past weekend went off without a hitch.

“The summit went smoothly and was a crowd-pleaser,” the Global Times, a Chinese tabloid, said Monday.

Five female journalists for the independent news site 64Tianwang, a Sichuan-based website, were reportedly “kidnapped” by Chinese police prior to or during the G20 Summit, says Reporters Without Borders.



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