China: Advance Reforms, Protect Speech at 2014 Congress

Email China’s National People’s Congress should make progress on key, overdue reforms and should ensure citizens will not be punished for speaking out around its annual meeting, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping and Congress Chairman Wu Bangguo. The National People’s Congress (NPC), which meets annually and is attended by more than 3,000 delegates from across the country, opens in Beijing on March 5, 2014. (New York) – China’s National People’s Congress should make progress on key, overdue reforms and should ensure citizens…

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