"I had hoped to spotlight Beijing’s deepening assault on internationalefforts to uphold human rights," Roth said of the report, which is to be released on Wednesday. "The refusal to let me enter Hong Kong vividly illustrates the problem." In the report, Roth warns that the Chinese government is carrying out an intensive attack on the global system for enforcing human rights.
"My denial of entry pales in comparison to the harassment that Chineseactivists routinely endure - jail, torture, and enforced disappearance simply for trying to secure basic rights for their fellow citizens," Roth, who has traveled to Hong Kong many times before, including to launch a HRW report, said in a statement on HRW's website.
