The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI), a New Zealand-based project, has been monitoring various countries’ human rights performance since 2017.
HRMI concluded that on several measures China was the country in the world with the worst human rights record. On freedom from arbitrary arrest, only Kazakhstan scored worse.
What else than a dictatorship is a state “most dangerous to its own citizens”?
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China is state most dangerous to its own citizens’ civil rights, report finds
What else than a dictatorship is a state “most dangerous to its own citizens”?
A theocracy, I’d reckon. But it’s more or less the same for China, since they ascended Mao to godhood.