However, Saudi Arabia's Human Rights violations are not just limited to women. On July 29, 2013, Raif Bawadi, founder of the Free Saudi Liberals website, was sentenced to 600 lashes and seven years in prison for insulting Islam and criticising the state's religious police. This illustrates how in fundamentalist Islamic states, religion is used as a means to justify human rights abuses. Thus human rights are culturally relative and are certainly not universal in many states which have opposing views to the West, despite being international law.
Human rights can also be compromised for cultural economic reasons, as exemplified in China. While china is now the second largest economy in the world, its rapid economic development, which averaged 10% per annum for the last decade, has come at the price of its workers' human rights. This has recently been exemplified in a report by human rights group China Labour Watch, which revealed that Pegatron, a Taiwanese company which assembles Apple products, is forcing employees to work unpaid overtime in poor working and living conditions, and is "violating a great number of international and Chinese Laws and standards". This mistreatment specifically violates the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which China is party to. Article 7 states that everyone is entitled to 'safe and healthy working conditions'. In addition, China's violations of human rights are heightened by its authoritarian regime. Under the Chinese Communist Party, independent labour unions are banned, and the government's official All-China Federation of trade Unions is the only legal representative of workers. This ban violates Article 8 of the ICESCR, which defends the 'right of everyone to form trade unionsfor the protection of his economic and social interests'. China's one-party leadership also implements highly repressive policies which limit freedom of expression, association and religion, violating the UDHR (particularly Articles 19 and 20 which outline the right to freedom of opinion and expression and the freedom of peaceful assembly).