Word: becquelin
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...bureaucrats - and hence their prospects for advancement - are judged. (The other is tax collection.) It is this pressure from above to comply with population quotas that prompts local officials to adopt measures such as forced abortion (sometimes heart-rendingly late in term), forced sterilization and the like, says Nicolas Becquelin of New York-based Human Rights in China...
...ordered to "accept supervision and guidance" or else be subject to punishment. According to a lawyer involved in the drafting of that document, "the original was intended to increase protection for lawyers, but then higher authorities intervened and made it do just the opposite." The authorities' strategy, says Nicholas Becquelin, Hong Kong representative of New York-based Human Rights Watch, is a "tightening of administrative controls over lawyers on the one hand and a crackdown on the most outspoken elements on the other hand...
...mindful, no doubt, of the role the Catholic Church played in the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe. And despite the Vatican's charm offensive, Beijing has refused to negotiate the release of the scores of Catholics loyal to Rome who sit in Chinese prisons, according to Nicolas Becquelin, China researcher for the New York City-based Human Rights Watch. To some, China's decision to ordain the two bishops was a deliberate bid to reassert its authority over the country's Catholics. Becquelin believes that church officials may have overestimated China's flexibility. "There was never any intention...
...media-rights group Reporters Without Borders says 32 journalists are currently imprisoned in China for their reporting. Says Nicholas Becquelin, Hong Kong-based research director for Human Rights in China: "Over the past six months, there has been a definite tightening of freedoms for the media, academics and publishing houses. I think [the recent detentions] are a sign that the leadership is striking hard to make an example of these people so that fear is instilled in these sensitive professions." In the past, detained dissidents were usually released soon after June 4. Will that happen this year...
...Guangdong provincial government issued a statement declaring that its C.-and-R. procedures are consistent with national policy. Sun's father, meanwhile, received a $53,000 settlement?and a team of police escorts, he told Time, to prevent him from discussing the case with the media. Nicolas Becquelin, research director of the New York City-based Human Rights in China organization, observes, "A scapegoat had to be found for a problem that is much larger than this case. The trial was incredibly quick and typically opaque. It allowed the authorities involved to be seen as responsible without actually changing anything...