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March 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The Pakistani UN envoy slammed the US rights violations at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). His remarks came following a 2011 report by the United Nations Human Rights Council High Commissioner Navi Pillay on US rights violations.
“The OIC states (members of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation) share the High Commissioner’s concern about the rights of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, as well as her disappointment over the failure to close this detention facility not least because most of the prisoners incarcerated there are Muslims and have been kept in a situation of legal limbo for the past 10 years,” Akram said at the UNHRC.
He also criticized the “deplorable act of the burning of the copies of the Holy Qur’an” by US forces in Afghanistan and “the deteriorating human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories and the occupied Syrian Arab Golan.”
On February 21, US troops in the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan burned copies of the Muslim holy book they had collected from the Afghan prisoners in there, with subsequent Afghan deaths following ongoing protests in the region.
Earlier, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) also slammed the United States for a wide range of rights violations in the country, including torture, child labor, overcrowded prisons and a flawed judicial system.
According to a recent report by the New York-based HRW, the US has the largest incarcerated population with some 2.3 million inmates serving time in prisons across the country.
American courts sometimes impose very long sentences tainted by racial disparities, the report added.
According to the HRW, hundreds of thousands of children work on US farms, being exposed to increasingly long hours of work — some often work 10 or more hours a day — without receiving minimum wage pay.
The working children are at risk of pesticide poisoning, heat-related illnesses, injuries, life-long disabilities and death, the report said.
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