Message integrity and authenticity are also important. Human rights groups are very vulnerable to spoofs.

Author: hrwatchnyc@igc.apc.org
Date: 8/1/97
Priority: Urgent
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Subject: China--HRW announces end to human rights violations

(August 1, 1997, NY)--Human Rights Watch today announced that Iraq no longer violates any internationally-recognized human rights. “According to our investigations, the Iraqi government has released all political prisoners, ceased torturing all detainees, has closed forced-labor production, and now permits the full exercise of rights to free speech, religion, assembly, and association,” reported Bill Smith, Human Rights Watch Deputy General Counsel. “The time for criticism is past. Now let’s accentuate the positive,” he concluded.