FILE PHOTO: Slovakia's President Zuzana Caputova reviews the guard of honour at the Presidential Palace after her swearing-in ceremony in Bratislava, Slovakia, June 15, 2019. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia's new president, a former activist lawyer, used a meeting with China's top diplomat on Wednesday to criticise Beijing's human rights record, in a rare departure for an east European politician in a region hungry for Chinese investment.
Most politicians in post-communist eastern Europe have steered clear of criticising China's record on freedom of speech, its treatment of religious and ethnic minorities and other issues.
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