Institutional Arrangements Securing the Ban on Torture in China

Authors: Na JIANG* and Rong HAN

DOI: 10.23880/ijfsc-16000148

Volume 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.

Keywords: Criminal Law Science; Lawyers; Criminal Procedure Law

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