China's top court bans police from torturing suspects

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

21 November 2013 Last updated at 13:50 GMT

Chinese officials must stop using torture to extract confessions from suspects, the Supreme Court has ruled.

The court said on its official microblog that using "freezing, starving, extreme heat, fire branding or extreme exhaustion" to extract confessions was also illegal.

It is the latest in a series of moves aimed at reforming the Chinese police and other security agencies.

Last week, China said it was abolishing "re-education through labour" camps.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-25029934

[Jerry442]

1. Certainly a step in the right direction.

What the heck is a microblog?

[christx30]

2. Twitter n/t

[yuiyoshida]

3. Wow.. I was about to say, this is a step in the right direction..

"beat" me to it.. (bad pun there)

[Dopers_Greed]

4. China will take a page from the US's playbook

"freezing, starving, extreme heat, fire branding or extreme exhaustion" to be re-classified as "not torture"

[FreakinDJ]

5. Window Dressing

It will Business as Usuall behind the curtin