Amid global criticism over its rights record, China on Monday announced reforms in laws protecting human rights as well as outlined measures to improve the conditions of prisons and detention centres.
Chinese judicial authorities have introduced reforms in many areas in order to further improve the legal guarantee procedure of human rights, an official white paper issued on Monday said.
Titled “New Progress in the Judicial Protection of Human Rights in China”, the White Paper issued by the central cabinet said China has introduced reforms in the case admitting system by converting the case-filing review system into a case-filing register system.
China has revised the Criminal Procedure law, and implemented principles of legality, in dubio pro reo, exclusion of unlawful evidence, the white paper said.
The reforms followed criticism over the treatment meted out to dissidents and the human rights lawyers with prison terms.
The country also revises the Civil Procedure law to effectively settle disputes, revised the Administrative Procedure law to strengthen the protection of legitimate rights and interests of private parties in administrative lawsuits, the white paper said, adding it enacted the first Anti-Domestic Violence law to strengthen legal protection of the personal rights of victims of domestic violence.