A Chinese flag flies in front of the Great Wall of China, located north of Beijing August 18, 2007. REUTERS/David Gray
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Friday that its people today enjoy the greatest level of political and civil rights ever, in a report issued just days after the European Union and United States expressed extreme concern over a deterioration in human rights in China.
In the last five years, Chinese president Xi Jinping has presided over what rights groups decry as an elevated crackdown on the country's rights activists and lawyers, with dozens arrested and hundreds detained.
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