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<font id="Zoom">[...</font><font id="Zoom">the United States has a
dismal record on its own human rights and could not be justified to
pose as the world's "human rights justice." However, it released the
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices year after year to accuse and
blame other countries for their human rights practices. The United
States ignores its own serious human rights problems, but has been keen
on advocating the so-called "human rights diplomacy," to take human
rights as a political instrument to defame other nations' image and
seek its own strategic interests. These facts fully expose its
hypocrisy by exercising double standards on human rights and its
malicious design to pursue hegemony under the pretext of human rights.</font>
<p><font id="Zoom">We hereby advise the U.S. government to take
concrete actions to improve its own human rights conditions, check and
rectify its acts in the human rights field, and stop the hegemonistic
deeds of using human rights issues to interfere in other countries'
internal affairs.]</font><br>
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<font id="Zoom">...the United States turned a blind eye to its own
terrible human rights situation and seldom mentioned it. The Human
Rights Record of the United States in 2010 is prepared to urge the
United States to face up to its own human rights issues...<br>
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</font><font id="Zoom">...</font><font id="Zoom">The U.S. regards
itself as "the beacon of democracy." However, its democracy is largely
based on money. According to a report from The Washington Post on
October 26, 2010, U.S. House and Senate candidates shattered
fundraising records for a midterm election, taking in more than 1.5
billion U.S. dollars as of October 24. The midterm election, held in
November 2010, finally cost 3.98 billion U.S. dollars, the most
expensive in the U.S. history. Interest groups have actively spent on
the election....</font><br>
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<p><font id="Zoom">...The United States has always called itself "land
of freedom," but the number of inmates in the country is the world' s
largest. According to a report released by the Pew Center on the
States' Public Safety Performance Project in 2008, one in every 100
adults in the U.S. are in jail and the figure was one in every 400 in
1970. By 2011, America will have more than 1.7 million men and women in
prison, an increase of 13 percent over that of 2006. The sharp increase
will lead to overcrowding prisons. California prisons now hold 164,000
inmates, double their intended capacity (The Wall Street Journal,
December 1, 2010). In a New Beginnings facility for the worst juvenile
offenders in Washington DC, only 60 beds are for 550 youths who in 2009
were charged with the most violent crimes. Many of them would violate
the laws again without proper care or be subject to violent crimes (The
Washington Post, August 28, 2010). Due to poor management and
conditions, unrest frequently occurred in prisons. According to a
report on Chicago Tribune on July 18, 2010, more than 20 former Cook
County inmates filed suit saying they were handcuffed or shackled
during labor while in the custody, leaving serious physical and
psychological damage. On October 19, 2010, at least 129 inmates took
part in a riot at Calipatria State Prison, leaving two dead and a dozen
injured (China Press, October 20, 2010). In November, AP released a
video showing an inmate, being beaten by a fellow inmate in an Idaho
prison, managed to plead for help through a prison guard station window
but officers looked on and no one intervened until he was knocked
unconscious. The prison was dubbed "gladiator school" (China Press,
November 2, 2010).</font></p>
<font id="Zoom">Wrongful conviction occurred quite often in the United
States. In the past two decades, a total of 266 people were exonerated
through DNA tests, among them 17 were on death row (Chicago Tribune,
July 11, 2010). A report from The Washington Post on April 23, 2010,
said Washington DC Police admitted 41 charges they raised against a
14-year-old boy, including four first-degree murders, were false and
the teen never confessed to any charge. Police of Will County,
Illinois, had tortured Kevin Fox to confess the killing of his
three-year-old daughter and he had served eight months in prison before
a DNA test exonerated him. Similar case happened in Zion, Illinois,
that Jerry Hobbs were forced by the police to confess the killing of
his eight-year-old daughter and had been in prison for five years
before DNA tests proved his innocence.</font>...<br>
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