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‘Torture rampant in China’

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December 6, 2016, 8:05 pm
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BEIJING”•China’s parallel justice system for Communist Party members relies heavily on torture and is “abusive and illegal”, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday, calling for it to be abolished.

The 88 million members of the country’s ruling party are subject to an internal justice system known as “shuanggui”, which operates without oversight from judicial authorities and has been increasingly criticized by China’s legal community.

More than 15 officials have reportedly died from abuses in “shuanggui” since 2007.

Since coming to power, President Xi Jinping has presided over a much-publicised drive against corruption that has punished more than one million officials in what some compare to a political purge. 

“President Xi has built his anti-corruption campaign on an abusive and illegal detention system,” said Sophie Richardson, HRW’s China director.

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She called for its abolition as a “first urgent step” towards restoring confidence in China’s legal system. “Political parties in a one-party state should not run their own detention systems.”

A report released Tuesday, based on analysis of court verdicts, media reports and interviews with former detainees and their family members, details the abuses of the system.

Typically, “shuanggui” subjects disappear without warning and are held in unofficial detention facilities until they “confess” to corruption. Then they are brought into the criminal justice system and convicted.

Tactics used to extract confessions include prolonged sleep deprivation, food and water deprivation, severe beatings, being forced into stress positions for extended periods of time and threats to family members, among others.

One former detainee detailed how he was forced to invent stories of his crimes. “They made me make it up. I had to make it up -– if I didn’t, they’d beat me.”

Another was made to stand and sit in alternating endless 12 hour shifts, saying “my legs became swollen, and my buttocks were raw and started oozing pus.”

One Beijing-based lawyer described the case of a client who was given only an hour a sleep a day and was forced to spend the rest of his time balancing a book on his head. 

After eight days, he “confessed to everything and to whatever they said”, the lawyer explained. 

“At that point his feet were swollen like an elephant’s and he could no longer urinate.”

Chinese courts have a conviction rate of 99.92 percent.

“The courts function as rubber stamps, lending credibility to an utterly illegal Communist Party process,” said Richardson. 

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