UNITED NATIONS (AN) — Human Rights Watch cautioned in a report on Tuesday that China is using its growing economic muscle to silence critics at home and increasingly abroad through foreign investment, international organizations and treaties.
The New York based-organization's 335-page annual review of human rights worldwide grabbed headlines after its executive director, Kenneth Roth, was denied entry to Hong Kong where he planned to release it. He said on Twitter that "authorities just turned me away at the Hong Kong airport so I wouldn't hold a Human Rights Watch press conference about Beijing's assault on human rights."
