China's murky legal system easing up
For many decades now, the People's Republic of China is notorious when it comes to human rights violations and tortures. In most cases, complaints for these human rights abuses have reportedly not been addressed properly in accordance with the accepted norms set by the United Nations. International political analysts viewed these abuses, normally perpetrated by the Chinese police, as a reflection of China's concentration of power in the communist party where legal decisions are made, rather in the local legal system. Flaws in the legal system are a common complaint among the victims who have to suffer the brunts of enduring it first in prison before any legal remedies are introduced. In 2005, The China Daily reported the case of She Xianglin, 39, from the Central Hubei Province, who was arrested and tortured into confessing by the local police after he was suspected of killing his wife Zhang Zaiyu whose badly decomposed body was found near his home. For this, he was sentenced t...