It said that the United States uses the human rights issues as "a political instrument to defame other nations' image and seek its own strategic interests." The report asserted "[The U.S. State department] released the 'Country Reports on Human Rights Practices' year after year to accuse and blame other countries for their human rights practices. These moves fully expose the United States hypocrisy by exercising double standards on human rights and its malicious design to pursue hegemony under the pretext of human rights."[1] Subsequent reports have continued to levy similar criticisms against the U.S. report.