The Year 2009 witnessed more violation to human rights
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The annual report of the U.S. State Department on human rights released on Thursday mentioned that human rights had been widely violated in 2009 in many places and the situation is becoming worse in the world.
The report announced that Muslims were more subject to discrimination than others, especially in Europe. First, Switzerland approved a constitutional amendment, which prohibits the construction of minarets. Second, more than 1400 people of Palestinians were killed in addition to more than a thousand civilians during the conflict with Israel. Third, Xinjiang, the Muslim region in China, suffered from severe repression after the ethnic clashes that took place there.
In China also there was strong censorship on contents released on web sites where the government blocked 1250 website. Also, discriminatory acts occurred in Iran during Presidential elections as well as other incidents that were reported in Cuba and South Korea.