China hits out at US on rights

CHINA has hit back at US criticism of its human rights record, issuing a report that denounced the US for offences ranging from allowing crime and poverty at home to abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

The report - issued annually in response to the US State Department’s global human rights survey - accused the US military of committing “wanton slaughters,” killing thousands of foreign civilians and torturing detainees.

“The atrocity of US troops abusing Iraqi POWs exposed the infringement of human rights of foreign nationals by the United States,” said the report, released by the press office of China’s cabinet.