China becomes more civilised

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Which is to say it has banned the use of torture by its police forces.

China bans evidence gained from torture

One of the things which finally made it happen was a man who had confessed to a murder. Eleven years after the fact the victim turned up, alive.

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but do we believe it to be a real effort to change, or a whitewash effort to deflect public/international opinion/backlash?

Will this lead to an actual change in procedure, or will it just limit the more blatant examples?

I guess only time will tell. I hope its real....but alas I fear it is not.