China to record, videotape interrogations so confessions cannot be extorted by torture – Meng Na and Zhou Erjie

From Xinhua:

As of March 1, 2006, China’s procurators will dispatch special technicians to make live recordings of the interrogation of criminals suspected of job-related crimes, so as to ensure that confessions be not extorted by torture.

The information was disclosed by Wang Zhenchuan, vice procurator-general of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) at an on-going national meeting on supervising job-related crimes interrogation in Ningbo of east China’s Zhejiang Province.

He also said that as of October 1, 2007, procurators will make real-time videos of all interrogations concerning job-related crimes, which mainly include graft and dereliction of duty.