Beijing, 5 May (Zhongxin Net) -- Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin presided over a regular news conference on 8 May.
A reporter asked: From April 4 to May 24, the UN Human Rights Council's independent panel of experts on "advancing racial justice and equality in law enforcement" visited the United States. At a press conference after the visit, the panel called on the United States to increase accountability for acts of racism and racial discrimination and to take steps to address the economic and social plight faced by people of African descent. What is China's comment on this?
Wang Wenbin: We noted the visit to the United States of the UN Human Rights Council's independent panel of experts on "Advancing Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement" recently. At a press conference at the end of its visit, the Panel reportedly stated that the legacy of slavery was protracted and deeply rooted in the United States, traumatizing generations. The data shows that racial discrimination is widespread in the US law enforcement system, and people of African descent are obviously discriminated against in all aspects of law enforcement such as arrest, detention, and sentencing. The Panel urges the United States Government to take stronger action to provide strong accountability for human rights violations, strengthen oversight of law enforcement and provide full reparation and assistance to victims of racial discrimination.
After Floyd, an African-American man, was killed by police in 2020, the Human Rights Council held an emergency debate to raise awareness of racial discrimination in U.S. law enforcement. The Human Rights Council also established these panels of experts in 2021 to advance racial justice and equality and hold perpetrators accountable. Regrettably, to this day, incidents of racial violence involving police officers in the United States are still frequent, and discrimination against ethnic minorities such as African Americans continues unabated. Police brutality and racial discrimination in the United States have fully exposed the United States' disregard for the right to life and the persistence of deep-rooted racism. The United States is by no means a model of respect for and protection of human rights, but a model of ignoring and undermining human rights.
We call on the United States to seriously respond to the concerns of the international community, profoundly examine its own problems of serious racism, racial discrimination and police violence, stop interfering in the internal affairs of other countries in the name of human rights, take practical measures to solve them, restore truth and justice to victims, and not let the tragedy of Freud and thousands of victims of racism be repeated. (End)