"We have continued to see a deterioration in the overall human rights situation" in China, Uzra Zeya, acting assistant US secretary of State for democracy, human rights, and labor, told reporters in Beijing early this month. Ms. Zeya cited as evidence the arrests of the 16 activists, the intimidation of dissidents' family members, and restrictive policies toward ethnic and religious minorities, particularly in the Tibetan Autonomous Region and the Uighur Autonomous Region.
Zeya also mentioned the cases of Dhondup Wangchen, a Tibetan filmmaker who has been imprisoned by the Chinese government since 2006, and Hada, an ethnic Mongolian activist jailed for nearly two decades.
