In this submission, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to China in its previous Universal Periodic Review, including in relation to the use of the death penalty, ethnic minorities, discrimination and ratification of international treaties. It also assesses the national human rights framework with regard to the ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), cooperation with the UN human rights mechanisms, crimes against humanity in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang) and the use of national security and sedition charges in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong).Amnesty International also raises concern about human rights defenders, freedom of expression, arbitrary detention, torture and other Ill-treatment and unfair trial, and extraterritorial obligations.
