The International Common Understanding And Chinese Designing Of Anti-torture

Thinking torture in historical view, we can witness its process of evolvement. Extorts a confession by torture was a kind of legal phenomenon, existed for a long time at all times and in all lands. With social progress and development of human civilization, extort a confession by torture has already proclaimed to be forbidden in many countries and is stipulated for the criminal procedural law .Human being put the anti-cruelty on agenda, and the international movement of anti-crucifixion has experienced a course of development and evolution. Many international covenants on human right were signed and ratified. China has also accepted it and set it a principle to limit the state legislation. The idea of human right was strengthened in the procedure of judicial.It is very urgent for China to build a perfect legal system, because there are many extorting a confession by torture in the action of criminal procedural .And any defendant and criminal suspect's rights should be protected. All acts in violation of human rights must be prohibited.In this article, the author puts forward some measures to prohibit the extortion of confessions by torture. By drawing on the useful experience...