(0614 CR M06)END TO FORCED CONFESSION
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(0614 CR M06)END TO FORCED CONFESSION
From Xinhua News Agency: (0614 CR M06)END TO FORCED CONFESSION DATELINE: June 14, 2011 LENGTH: 00:01:52 PKG INTRO China's drafting amendment of criminal procedural law is expected to seek an end to forced confession. PKG Wang Minyuan, a legal expert with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that according to the draft, evidence found to be extracted by torture, violence or other illegal ways will not stand in the court. Wang said the current Criminal Procedure Law prohibits illegal evidence extraction and self-incrimination, but it fails to stipulate the consequences for those practices. As a result, forced confessions still have chance to be recognized as valid in the prosecution procedures. Wang believes it's a major cause for the repeated occurring of the forced confession cases in China. In an extreme case last may, a villager in central China's Henan Province was acquitted of murder after the supposed victim was found alive. Although three police officers were arrested for allegedly tortu Powered by www.newslook.com
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