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Originally Posted by Iliak
Capital punishment would of course disqualify them, but still I think that the level of human rights, civil liberties and political rights is better in US than in any other new member state plus Greece, Spain and Portugal. Not to mention Romania and Bulgaria (to join 2009) as well as Turkey (candidate country).
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What is your basis for saying that the civil liberties and the political rights are worse in those countries?
The level of human rights is without doubt much worse in the U.S. than in the countries you mentioned (maybe except Turkey) All countries that are members of the EU or wanna become members has to match the Copenhagen Criterias, which includes the respect of human rights according to HRW (Human Rights Watch) Romania and Bulgaria are actually rebuilding their prisons so they unlike most American prisons live up to the HRW standards.