Human rights added to draft law
By Zhao Yinan | China Daily | Updated: 2012-03-05 08:09
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Reporters from China and abroad raise hands to ask questions during the news conference of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 11th National People's Congress in Beijing on Sunday. Feng Yongbin / China Daily |
BEIJING - A draft amendment to the nation's criminal procedural law, which came under fire for permitting detention without informing family in some cases, has added the principle of protecting human rights to its general provisions, a spokesman said.
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