Pared-down rights report takes aim at Europe, but spares allies

The United States on Tuesday alleged that human rights were worsening in Western Europe due to internet regulations, in a pared-down annual global report that spared partners of President Donald Trump such as El Salvador.

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The State Department's congressionally required report historically has offered extensive accounts of all nations’ records, documenting in dispassionate detail issues from unjust detention to extrajudicial killing to personal freedoms.

For the first report under Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the State Department trimmed sections and took particular aim at countries that have been in Mr Trump's crosshairs, including Brazil and South Africa.

On China, which has been identified as a top US adversary across administrations, the State Department report said “genocide” was ongoing against the mostly Muslim Uyghur people, whose plight Mr Rubio took up as a senator.