Rights expert: we need rule of law

BEIJING - A leading Chinese human-rights expert has called for the rule of law to be applied when handling human rights and development issues.

To improve the capacity and level of human-rights protection through scientific development and to smooth relations between human rights and development, law-based governance is needed, Luo Haocai, president of the China Society for Human Rights Studies, said at the opening of the Third Beijing Forum on Human Rights on Tuesday.

Luo also stressed the idea that human rights should not be used as a political tool.