Moving away from torture

China's top prosecuting authority and highest-level court have vowed to avoid wrong judgments and exclude evidence obtained through torture.

Preventing the miscarriage of justice is a basic requirement of every judicial officer, including judge and prosecutor, and they must resist any interference in the handling of their cases, according to the Supreme People's Procuratorate.

Zhang Biao, a prosecutor in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, was cited as an example. He spent five years correcting a verdict that convicted two men, Zhang Gaoping and Zhang Hui from Zhejiang province, of rape and jailed them.