(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-04-02 23:54

BEIJING - The China Society for Human Rights Studies on Wednesday criticized Amnesty International's comments on the country's human rights record in the run-up to the Olympics.

"We firmly oppose attempts by any organization to slander and attack China under the pretense of human rights, and firmly oppose the attempts by any organization to put pressure on China using the Olympics," the Chinese rights group said in a statement.

London-based Amnesty International issued a report on Tuesday that assailed China's human rights record, criticized its handling of unrest in Tibet and urged the International Olympic Committee and world leaders to pressure China.

"Turning a blind eye to the development and achievements of China's human rights, the report wantonly distorts and groundlessly censures China's human rights record, which is not at all objective, fair or acceptable," the Chinese organization said in its statement.

"Amnesty International has all along held political prejudice against and a hostile attitude toward China, which was again proven by its serious distortion and malicious slander of China's human rights [situation] and the government's handling of the Tibetan violence according to the law," the statement said.