Human rights in China are periodically reviewed by international bodies, such as human rights treaty bodies and the United Nations Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC), their supporters, and other proponents claim that existing policies and enforcement measures are sufficient to guard against human rights abuses. However, other countries, international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including Human Rights in China and Amnesty International, and citizens, lawyers, and dissidents inside the country, state that the authorities in mainland China regularly sanction or organize such abuses.
Political protest in Hong Kong against the detention of Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo.
Chinese blogger and human rights activist Wu Gan was sentenced to 8 years in prison in December 2017
Tibet Buddhist Shrine
Government sign stating: 'For a prosperous, powerful nation and a happy family, please use birth planning.'
Ethnic minorities in China
Ethnic minorities in China are the non-Han population in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
An 8th-century Tang dynasty Chinese clay figurine of a Sogdian man (an Eastern Iranian person) wearing a distinctive cap and face veil, possibly a camel rider or even a Zoroastrian priest engaging in a ritual at a fire temple, since face veils were used to avoid contaminating the holy fire with breath or saliva; Museum of Oriental Art (Turin), Italy.
The Long-horn tribe, a small branch of ethnic Miao in the western part of Guizhou Province
