China issues report criticizing U.S. human rights

The charge appears in China’s annual report on Washington’s human rights record, which touches on issues ranging from homelessness and violent crime to the influence of money on politics

Ivan Simonovic, the U.N.'s assistant secretary-general for Human Rights, left, Dr. Sima Samar, Chairperson, Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, second left, Georgette Gagnon, UNAMA's director of Human Rights, second and right, and Staffan de Mistura, left, head of the United Nations Assistance Mission Afghanistan (UNAMA) during a press conference in Kabul . The United Nations says civilian deaths related to the conflict in Afghanistan spiked in 2010 and that insurgents are responsible for the increase and the overwhelming majority of the killings. Photo: AP.

China is criticizing the U.S. for attacking the secret—spilling website WikiLeaks while pushing for Internet freedom around the world.

The charge appears in China’s annual report on Washington’s human rights record, which touches on issues ranging from homelessness and violent crime to the influence of money on politics.

China also condemns the killing of civilians by American forces in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

The report issued on Monday is a rebuttal to the U.S. State Department’s annual assessment of human rights around the world that said China reportedly stepped up restrictions on critics and tightened control of civil society in 2010 by limiting freedom of speech and Internet access.