China to pass law to be able to detain suspects for 37 days

“These thousands include petitioners seeking justice, members of underground churches, and political activists,” she added.

Xiao Han, an associate professor at China’s University of Political Science and Law, pointed out on his blog that the articles in the new law are “a complete set of boxing moves, encompassing secret evidence collection, secret arrest, illegal long-term imprisonment, and technical aspects of investigation, sufficient to go out and get anyone.”

The new law does also, for the first time, urge the police to “safeguard human rights” and introduces new provisions against collecting evidence under duress and forcing suspects to sign confessions, until now a common practice. “The rights of defence lawyers have also been expanded,” said Chen Weizhong, a law professor at Renmin university. “There have been lots of improvements,” he added.

“People expect too much when it comes to protecting human rights,” said Mr Chen. “They hope the criminal law would jump forward in one big step. But this is impossible in today’s China,” he said. “In our situation, maintaining stability is very important to our country’s development.”

In recent years, the UK and the United States have also both been accused of carrying out secret detentions of terrorist suspects.

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