Monday December 16, 2:29 PM
By Tamora Vidaillet
BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. rights envoy Lorne Craner began two days of
high-level talks with Chinese officials on Monday in which he was expected to
press Beijing to free political prisoners and increase religious freedoms.
In the first bilateral talks of their kind since October 2001, Craner said he
would discuss human rights and democracy issues, but did not elaborate on
specific cases he would raise.
"We're hoping for a very productive session today and results in the coming
weeks and new year," Craner, U.S. assistant secretary of state for democracy,
human rights and labour affairs, told reporters.
[...]
SLEW OF CASES
The U.S. embassy declined to comment on specific cases Craner was likely to
bring up during the talks.
But U.S. Ambassador to Beijing Clark Randt told businessmen last month he had
consistently raised a series of unresolved rights cases involving prisoners of
conscience and people held in defiance of China's own laws.
[...]
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