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Taiwan mayoral candidate urges China to respect human rights.

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Text of report by Chris Wang in English by Taiwanese Central News Agency website

Taipei, 10 March: Human rights is an universal value and any regime which suppresses freedom of speech, religion or thought should be reprimanded, a candidate in the Kuomintang's (KMT's) primary for the year-end Taipei mayoral election said Friday [10 March].

While sitting with a group of human rights activists who launched a two-week hunger strike to protest the deteriorating human rights situation in China, Hau Lung-pin said that "for China to have a 'peaceful rising', it has to respect human rights first." "I'm here to show …

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