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New Regulation Bans Torture Confessions

New rules from China’s Supreme People’s Court prohibit confessions obtained through torture. From Xinhua: China’s highest court has published details of a regulation banning the admission of confessions obtained through torture in criminal trials. The rule comes after a man who was wrongly jailed for murder was released last month when the victim turned up alive and well 10 years