what does bent mean?

Context:

“By being so notable, Chen is very high profile to the human rights community,” said John Kusumi of Cheshire, who founded the China Support Network after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.

“So the continued abuse is very brazen; it is the matter of the Chinese government putting itself on the record as bent, craven, depraved, sick, twisted and contemptuous of the rule of law.”

In order to keep China’s population, now 1.3 billion, from exploding, the government in 1979 instituted a policy in which families generally are limited to one child.

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http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2011/11/25/news/new_haven/doc4ed033a492b66848778693.txt?viewmode=2