'Right to be silent' may be granted
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An ROK soldier stands by a gate as a DPRK train makes its way through the demilitarized zone in Goseong, east of Seoul, yesterday. Trains from the north and south crossed the heavily fortified border for the first time since the 1950-53 war, in what both sides described as a milestone for reconciliation. AFP |
These words, familiar to many from Hollywood movies or cops-and-robbers TV shows, could be uttered by Chinese police if an amendment to the Criminal Procedure Law, scheduled for October, is approved.
"There's little debate over whether to include the stipulation that suspects shall not be forced to admit guilt," Chen Ruihua, a law professor at Peking University involved in the amendment of the law, said. "If approved, it means that suspects will have the right to keep silent in interrogations."
