Amnesty Int'l: Asia seeing growing repression, resistance

Authoritarian governments in Asia are undermining human rights and demonizing their critics, but they face a rising tide of protest from young people who defy grave risks to protest such repression, Amnesty International said in its annual report on the region.

The human rights group's annual survey of the Asia-Pacific region, released Wednesday, said India and China, the two most populous nations, are trying to impose their own bleak, domineering vision on the continent, perceiving minorities as a threat to 'national security.'"