Beijing’s Broken Promises on Human Rights

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In: Asia, China and Tibet, Commentary, Criminal Justice, Death Penalty, ESC Rights, Free Expression, Human Rights Defenders, Judicial Accountability, Police Brutality, Press Freedom, Prison and Jail Conditions, Religious Freedom

China’s first National Human Rights Action Plan committed the Chinese government to end the practice of "extortion of confessions by torture" and put police and security forces on notice that "it is strictly forbidden to extort confessions by torture." In death penalty cases, which Chinese law mandates for no fewer than 68 crimes, the plan stipulated that the death penalty &quo

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