Despite recent positive steps, discrimination against persons with disabilities continues in China and organizations for the disabled face government pressure and harassment, Human Rights Watch said today on the eve of the September 6 Paralympic Games in Beijing... The Chinese government has in recent years enacted a variety of new laws [protecting the disabled]... Human Rights Watch said that the new laws have not ended discriminatory employment practices... A 2007 survey by the China University of Political Science and Law...revealed that 22 percent of the respondents said their physical disabilities had prompted employers...to reject them for jobs... [Civil] society organizations... particularly those devoted to addressing the needs of China’s HIV/AIDS and chronic hepatitis B sufferers, continue to be targets for repression by Chinese security forces suspicious of such groups.