China strikes back, releases US human rights report

China has published a report on the United States human rights situation on Thursday, in response to the '2015 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices' issued by the U.S. State Department on April 13.

Titled "The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2015", the report was released by the Information Office of the State Council, China's cabinet, reports Xinhua.

The report says that the Washington made comments on the human rights situation in many countries while being tight-lipped about its own terrible human rights record, adding, the United States saw no improvement in its existent human rights issues, but reported numerous new problems.

"Since the U.S. government refuses to hold up a mirror to look at itself, it has to be done with other people's help," Xinhua quoted the report as saying.

The reports asserted the money politics and family politics went from bad to worse in the country, where the voters fount I hard to express their real volition.

It also showed light on the civil rights situation which in 2015 went rampant with gun-related crimes and excessive use of force by police.

In total it revealed that 51,675 gun violence incidents took place in the United States in 2015 as of December 28, leaving 13,136 dead and 26,493 injured. As of December 24 last year, U.S police shot dead 965 people.

The report highlights that no substantial progress concerning the economic and social rights of U.S. citizens were made, adding, more than 560,000 people nationwide were homeless last year, and there were 33 million people in the United States with no healthcare insurance.

It also quotes figures to show that Washington continued to trample on human rights in other countries, causing tremendous civilian casualties. The United States launched 3,965 air strikes in Iraq and 2,823 in Syria, causing an estimated number of civilian deaths between 1,695 and 2,239 from August 2014 to December 2015.

It further said that the United States' overseas monitoring projects infringed on the privacy of citizens of other countries.

According to the report, Washington has also bugged the phones of three French presidents and many other senior French officials.