![]() The filming of confessions is often tightly choreographed to maximize propaganda value, with prisoners forced to read or memorize a scripted confession, then give rehearsals until China’s security officials are satisfied. It says the practice is linked to torture, threats and arbitrary detention, and shows the People’s Republic of China lacks a legitimate criminal justice system.Ĭhina’s state-run media’s airing of forced confessions makes it complicit in the abuses, the report says. ![]() The report calls the CCP’s forced confessions an attack on human dignity and the basic right to due process and a fair trial. Victims include lawyers, rights activists, journalists and bloggers as well as Uyghurs, a persecuted ethnic minority group subjected to the CCP’s mass internment in the Xinjiang region. The CCP targets critics or perceived enemies for forced confessions with vague national security or public order laws, such as “ picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” the report says. ![]() They urge the United Nations to recommend that China’s leaders implement legal reforms to stop forced televised confessions and strengthen due process protections. The rights groups’ submission on “China’s practice of extracting and broadcasting forced confessions before trial” documents 87 cases since 2013 where state security or police have forced pretrial confessions that are then aired on state-run media.
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