Human Rights

China went through the Universal Periodic Review before the UN Human Rights Council, as Ambassador Li Baodong proclaimed with a straight face, "China has never restricted freedom of speech, there is no media censorship, we guarantee full religious freedom, and journalists, lawyers, human rights advocates have full freedoms." A Working Group produced a report on China at the end of the review, which a FM spokeswoman found agreeable. "Although a few countries attempted to politicize the review and made some groundless accusations, they were rebuked by most countries," she said.