Article: CHINA-UN-LD-TORTURE.

Article: Human Rights Group Says China Tortures Political ...
The Washington Post;  June 1, 1992 ;     362 words ...Participants in China's 1989 democracy movement have been ... well and that only isolated instances of torture occur. But they have refused to let international ... jailed for more than a year and then fled China, reaching the United States in April ...

Article: China -- Torture in China under the ...
M2 Presswire;  May 5, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... PRESSWIRE-5 May 2000-AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: China -- Torture in China under the spotlight at the UN (C)1994-2000 ... labour" camps and repatriation centres throughout China, torture is widespread and should be seriously condemned ...

Article: China torture targeted.(Main)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  December 3, 2005 ;     436 words ... ... international covenant banning torture in 1988. But Nowak said ... to be central goals of China's criminal justice ... Human Rights considers torture, to obtain them, he said. "The use of torture, though on the decline ... remains widespread in China," Nowak said in Beijing ...

Article: U.N. TO PROBE CHINA TORTURE CHARGES.(MAIN)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  October 29, 2001 ;     550 words ... ... Washington Post BEIJING -- China has agreed to let a United ... officials routinely engage in torture, European diplomats ... special investigator on torture could conduct a fact ... visit, diplomats said. China made a similar offer ... current representative on torture, Nigel Rodley, is ...

Article: China torture ordeal claim
The Independent - London;  April 24, 1999 ;     474 words ... ... in Urumqi, the capital of China's restive Muslim Xinjiang ... Public Security Bureau where the torture took place. "I was given ... prisoners cannot bear the pain of torture and try to kill themselves ... page report details widespread torture, extra- judicial killings ...

Article: Rep. McCotter Introduces Resolution Concerning Communist ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 24, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... condemning Communist China's discrimination, harassment, imprisonment, torture, and execution of its ... 821Condemning Communist China's discrimination, harassment, imprisonment, torture, and execution of its ... All religious groups in China face some restrictions ...

Article: China police torture cited // Crackdowns aren't ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  September 8, 1987 ;     522 words ... ... torture is widespread in China despite government efforts ... officers and trying to get torture cases investigated ... yellowfish." Other tortures, it said, included ... public condemnation of torture in China, some convicted torturers ...