Action plan to protect detainees
By Zhu Zhe | China Daily | Updated: 2009-04-14 07:38
The country's first-ever human rights action plan promises to treat detainees better and ban extraction of confessions by torture.
The National Human Rights Action Plan (2009-10) also prohibits corporal punishment or abuse of detainees, following reports of several unnatural deaths of people in police custody recently.
According to the plan released yesterday by the State Council Information Office:
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