Facilities in detention centers should be improved and suspects given better protection, according to political advisers and legislators.
National prosecuting departments have identified nearly 4,300 suspects who have been illegally detained for more than three years without being prosecuted or sentenced, the Supreme People's Procuratorate said on Monday.
The First Circuit Court of the Supreme People's Court heard its first dispute on Monday in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, a move designed to ease the burden on the country's top court.
A new regulation designed to prevent misconduct by those involved in government procurement took effect on Sunday.
Criminal defendants and appellants will not need to wear jail clothes when they appear in court, under a new judicial reform guideline.
China's Central Military Commission (CMC) urged the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to promote the rule of law in all elements of the army.
China's supreme court plans to forbid suspects on trial from wearing prison uniforms or clothes in a move to better protect the rights of the accused.