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	October 2nd, 2007
	Torch for China Human Rights Reaches the Heart of the EU BRUSSELS, Belgium— After a morning of pouring rain, the skies cleared for the welcoming ceremony for the Human Rights Torch relay at Schumann Place in Brussels, Belgium. Members of almost all the parties in Belgium’s Parliament supported the event. The Human Rights Torch, which started its five-continent trek in Athens, Greece on August 9, arrived in Brussels................

	October 2nd, 2007
	The heroism of the Burmese, the shame of China When China joined Russia last January to veto a fairly mild United Nations Security Council resolution calling on Burma to free political prisoners and improve its abominable human rights record, Beijing’s Ambassador at the UN helpfully explained that “no country is perfect” and that “similar problems exist in other countries”. Including, as he of course did not say, China.The parallels may not seem all that obvious this week..............

	Posting date: 8/4/2007
	Washington, DC: Congressmen Propose Beijing Olympic Boycott at Press Conference on Human Rights Torch Relay Olympic Games in Beijing 2008 and Crimes against Humanity Cannot Co-exist. Congressman Submits Proposal to Boycott the Olympic Games in China. The Tyranny in Beijing Could Disappear Within a Blink of an Eye. Suppression of Its Own People Must Be Stopped for China To Be Respected ..................


	US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher: We Should Not Send a Team to the Olympics in a Country that is Run by a Government that Represses its Own People. US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of California, a prominent spokesman for human rights around the world, attended the June 19th rally and gave a speech ................



	SCO Summit: Crackdown Highlights Failings on Human Rights Shanghai Cooperation Organization Should Not Undermine Rights in Name of Security. Members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization missed a key opportunity to implement the organization’s human rights principles when they met on August 16 at the SCO summit in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, Human Rights Watch said today .................

	(New York, September 20, 2007)
	China: Tibetan Schoolboys Detained as Crackdown Worsens Teenage Students Held Incommunicado for Graffit "Arresting teenagers for a political crime shows just how little has changed in Tibet. Beating up a child for a political crime shows just how far China has to go before it creates the ‘harmonious society’ China’s leaders talk so much about." Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch.