U.N. cites police for being too forceful at A7 (Oakland)rally

excerpt of article from Oakland Tribune:

U.N. human rights officials have written up the United States for child prostitution and pornography, criminal executions, poor treatment of migrant workers and violence against women.

But the 2004 report is the first in at least five years to add the United States to a list of such repressive regimes as Indonesia, Burundi, China and others that routinely kill, torture, imprison or spy on human-rights activists.

Most of those nations responded to "letters of allegation" from U.N. officials. The U.S. State Department did not.

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