{"id":5131,"date":"2015-05-13T23:56:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T03:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=5131"},"modified":"2015-05-13T23:56:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T03:56:50","slug":"china-reforms-to-curb-torture-dont-go-far-enough-human-rights-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-reforms-to-curb-torture-dont-go-far-enough-human-rights-watch","title":{"rendered":"China Reforms to Curb Torture Don\u2019t Go Far Enough-Human Rights Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Geng He, wife of China’s leading human rights lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, speaks at a press conference in Washington, Sept. 9, 2014.
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\nMeasures introduced by China over the past six years to curb torture and mistreatment of criminal detainees have not done enough to reduce abuses, the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday in report that urged more systemic changes.<\/p>\n

HRW said measures introduced in 2009 after a popular outcry over particularly egregious cases of police brutality are positive but \u201cthey are being grafted onto a criminal justice system that still affords the police enormous power over the judiciary and offers police numerous opportunities to abuse suspects.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsent more fundamental reforms in the Chinese criminal justice system that empower defense lawyers, the judiciary, and independent monitors, the elimination of routine torture and ill-treatment is unlikely,\u201d said the HRW report.<\/p>\n

The report, titled \u201cTiger Chairs and Cell Bosses\u201d to describe restraining racks and favored prisoners who mistreat cellmates on behalf of police, studied all of the roughly 158,000 verdicts published on the website of Supreme People\u2019s Court (SPC) between January 1 and April 30, 2014, the first year the court published verdicts.<\/p>\n

HRW identified 432 verdicts in which suspects alleged torture, and found only 23 resulted in evidence being thrown out by the court because it was tainted by torture. In none of the 23 cases was the defendant acquitted, it said.<\/p>\n

The group also discussed the court data in interviews with 48 recent detainees, family members, lawyers, and former officials.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe detainees and defense lawyers we spoke with said that some police officers deliberately thwart the new protections by taking detainees from official detention facilities or use torture methods that leave no visible injuries,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn other cases, procurators and judges ignore clear evidence of mistreatment, rendering China\u2019s new \u2018exclusionary rule\u2019 — which prohibits the use of evidence directly obtained through torture\u2014of no help,\u201d HRW added.<\/p>\n

Also permitting torture-derived confessions to continue despite the court reforms were practices or policies that do not permit lawyers to be present during interrogations and do not suspects the right to remain silent.<\/p>\n

\u201cProcurators and judges rarely question or challenge police conduct, and internal oversight mechanisms remain weak,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

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