民主政治走向衰退。一项对专家的调查显示，89%的受访者认为过去10年来美国民主质量一直在下降。（注28）美国《大西洋》月刊网站2017年6月21日报道，一项关于美国民主状况的调查显示，大多数受访者认为，在给予公民平等的投票机会、阻止官员利用公职谋取私利以及民主决策等方面，美国政府是失败的。

I. Serious Infringement on Civil Rights

（注44）美国广播电视公司第7频道网站（），2017年12月13日。

四、贫富分化现象持续恶化

（注26）《商业杂志》网站（https://www.bizjournals.com），2017年5月8日。

Foreigners have long been tortured and detained at the Guantanamo Bay. On December 13, 2017, The American Broadcasting Company website reported that the new U.S. administration had not released any prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay and not added any to the list of cleared men who can go home, or to a third country, for resettlement. The Al Jazeera website reported on September 22, 2017, that in a hearing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the Commission), former Guantanamo detainee Djamel Ameziane prepared a written statement saying he was detained for 11 years, faced prolonged incommunicado detention, multiple forms of torture, and never received a judicial determination regarding the legality of his detention. According to a report of The USA Today website on December 13, 2017, the U.N. and human rights organizations had criticized U.S. authorities for creating a "legal black hole" allowing for the infinite detention of suspects without charge, and for holding many of the detainees for more than a decade. Nils Melzer, the United Nations Human Rights Council special rapporteur on torture, on December 13, 2017, urged the United States to end its torture of detainees held at the controversial Guantanamo Bay detention facility (, December 13, 2017).

一、公民权利遭受严重侵犯

一、公民权利遭受严重侵犯

（注21）《国际财经时讯》网站（），2017年3月31日。

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