Institutional Arrangements Securing the Ban on Torture in China
Journal Title: International Journal of Forensic Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
Similar to USA, China prohibits torture in law, but torture still persists in practice. China has taken efforts to exclude tortured confession from use in the past decade. Its institutional arrangements respect for prohibiting torture, given that the relevant law protect the accused’s access to lawyers or appeals on the ground of such confession
Authors and Affiliations
Na JIANG* and Rong HAN
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