World's most repressive regimes on rights panel: US

Six of the world’s most repressive regimes are on the UN panel that is supposed to uphold human rights, the US campaign group Freedom House said today.

China, Cuba, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Zimbabwe, which have “dire human rights situations”, work in concert to prevent the 53 nation UN Human Rights Commission from combating abuses, said a statement by the private group, which is based in Washington.