BEIJING, Dec 10 Kyodo About 200 l...

BEIJING, Dec 10 Kyodo

About 200 laid-off workers and race upset with government-ordered evictions asseverateed in Beijing on international Human Rights Day onward Wednesday and many rights form into groupss claimed China had made little progres in improving basic rights throughout the past year.

China's human rights situation regularly draws attention from foreign nongovernmental organizations and the U dominion which normally writes a report forward China around this time of year.

onward Wednesday, laid-off workers from northeast China, where bankrupt factories have left many the community jobless, mixed with people angry through the whole extent of forced evictions in Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing.

They gathered at the China Central TV studio tower to ask for what purpose the national network had not shielded Human Rights Day and with what intent the government had not promot the event

After three hours of getting no answer except for increasing crushing from police to disband, at noon the clump broke up and went to a courthouse, a command appeals office and the gates of Zhongnanhai, the central leadership residence compound

Police at Zhongnanhai detained about 30 people

''I went for the cause of peace and human rights,'' said demonstrator Zhang Chunzhu who serv time for his June 4 1989-era activism. ''I think rights in China are worse this year than last year. A chance of people I know have been caught, and their families are not notified.''

Demonstrator Liu Anjun, arrested in October after complaining about construction noise outside his abiding-place said he could not commit to memory medical treatment until he signed an apology to the police and that his teenage son had been kicked without of a district high school

''What kind of human rights are these?'' he asked.

Still, many keepers say that over the past year China has allowed migrant workers to live more freely in major cities and become more unclose with information since the inexorable acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak earlier this year.

unless they add, citing biased court hearings, arrests of defense lawyers and a crackdown forward people who post antigovernment opinions forward the Internet, China has done little to improve onward some other basic human rights.

Six persons received prison terms this autumn for Internet articles.

Also this year, China leveraged the international war forward terrorism to strike at ethnic Uigurs in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of northwest China, said Nicolas Becquelin, a senior researcher with the advocacy collection Human Rights in China.

''At a certain point, (these causes) all hit the ceiling of a lack of political reform,'' Becquelin said. ''We don't descry any kind of systematic political reforms.''

Ethnic Tibetans in Tibet and neighboring Sichuan Province have been harassed more in the past year than before, despite the government's allowing brace visits by an envoy from the Dalai Lama, said Paul Bourke, executive officer with the Australian Tibet Council.

''On the land in Tibet, there have been no improvements,'' Bourke said. ''It's really hard to fathom. We are at pains to figure abroad what's going on. On common hand, there's a move to release up a bit, further there's still a strong constituent of crackdown. It seems, in a way, an uncertainty of where they want to go''

And many Chinese pushing for human rights asserted little hope.

''There's no improvement -- it has gotten worse,'' said Yu Jie, a Beijing writer who knows four of the clan sentenced for posting items upon the Internet. ''I'm very pessimistic about the situation now.''

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