http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2012/07/law-stability-sliding-reform/ Watching China Politics from Cyberspace Fri, 24 May 2013 00:02:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2012/07/law-stability-sliding-reform/#comment-59350 Will Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:51:16 +0000 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/?p=139578#comment-59350 PRC police will probably continue to insist that they are not governed by legal procedure, and can detain anyone for as long as they want or are ordered to. One PSB officer once shouted at a rights-defending Chinese lawyer: “Do you know where you are?! This is Communist Party territory.” Meaning that legal procedure is nothing compared to CCP edicts and directives, no matter how far they may stray from the constitution and the law.

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