The British foreign minister said China had “failed in its basic human rights responsibilities.”

Andrew James Nathan, a political science professor at Columbia University, joins Martin Savidge to discuss the death penalty in China. Nathan estimates that China executes thousands each year, although the official numbers remain secret.

Even as the world commemorates the anniversary, there are reports that in China, citizens who challenge the authorities are being thrown into psychiatric hospitals and forcibly medicated. One Chinese citizen claimed he was lashed to a bed, forced to take pills and given injections that left him numb and woozy.

Andrew Nathan, an expert on human rights issues in China and professor at Columbia University, joins Martin Savidge to discuss the prevalence of such treatment, Chinese media coverage of the story and U.S. challenges to human rights abuses in China.