The US State Department has issued a report on human rights violations in 2013, criticizing the human rights record in other countries, including China.
At a press conference, US Secretary of State John Kerry said, a chemical weapons attack in Syria last summer that killed more than one thousand and 400 people was the world’s worst human rights violation in the past year. And Assistant Secretary of State Uzra Zeya expressed concerns over human rights issues in Russia, Ukraine, Egypt and other countries.
The report looks at the human rights situation in nearly 200 countries and regions, but nothing was mentioned about the human rights problems in the US, such as its improper treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and its mass surveillance program PRISM. Analysts say the US is using double standards on human rights issues
