State Dept. Drops China from Rights Violators' List

March 18, 2008 State Dept. Drops China from Rights Violators' List by Stacie L. Harp (persecutionblog.com) "I just finished reading the following paragraph and almost fell off my chair. 'The U.S. State Department recently removed China from its list of the world's worst human-rights violators. No reason was given for the removal, although the State Department said last year that China's overall human-rights record remained poor.'"