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Written by Jared Leone
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Tuesday, 14 April 2009 |
Bowing to international criticism on its human rights record, China released a two-year plan to improve issues like torture and improve access to education and social services for people living in the communist country.
The document outlines rights and guarantees including a right to work, rights to detainees and personal rights. It guarantees civil and political rights, and officials also will closely examine death penalty cases.
The document outlines rights and guarantees including a right to work, rights to detainees and personal rights.Other highlights in the document include, “the state prohibits the extortion of confessions by torture,” and “prohibits illegal detention by law enforcement personnel.”
China also joined “25 international conventions on human rights.” The country vows to publish timely reports and keep an open dialog with those groups.
All of this is because the country has "entered the stage of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way," and “socialist modernization” is going along faster than expected.
[China.org]
Jared Leone, a TheSequitur.com senior editor, is a writer in the Tampa Bay area.
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