Human Rights - Torture
Hong Kong

The UN Committee Against Torture issued its Concluding Observations on China's fourth periodic report under the Convention Against Torture. The report documented systemic torture of political and criminal detainees and widespread abuse in the Chinese legal system. A Chinese FM spokesman denounced the report as "slanderous" and accused "some biased committee members" as untruthful and driven by a political agenda, despite the fact that the report was issued by the Committee as a whole which included Mr. Wang Xuexian, a senior diplomat from China, as its vice-chairperson.

Meanwhile, the same "biased and untruthful" Committee appeared to have much less interest in "fabricating" facts on Hong Kong, criticising merely the use of body searches by the police.