If not as dark as 15 years ago, China’s human rights record remains abysmal. The British Foreign Office’s annual human rights report for 2004, the most comprehensive in the EU, condemns China’s extensive use of the death penalty (even for such crimes as corruption, pimping, drug offenses, and tax fraud), its systematic torture of dissidents, and its restrictions on freedom of speech – including the Internet – and religion.
虽然中国已不再如15年前般黑暗，但是中国人权记录依然糟糕。欧盟最具综合权威性的英国外务办公室年度人权报告在2004年谴责中国政府滥用死刑（甚至将死刑用于贪污、嫖娼、贩毒和税务诈骗罪犯）、长期镇压持不同政见者、禁止宗教和自由言论（包括互联网）