Where's Dick Durbin when we actually need him?

It appears that China rivals Guantanamo Bay in human rights abuses:

The use of torture in China is widespread, and frequently carried out by police who exercise “wide discretion” within the country's under-developed legal system, a United Nations special envoy said on Friday.

Manfred Nowak, UN special rapporteur on torture, said police often resorted to torture in the early stages of detaining subjects as they came “under heavy pressure to produce confessions”. Techniques such as beatings and sleep deprivation by police and other security authorities focused on “breaking the will” of individuals, thus creating a “general culture of fear”, he said.

[Nowak's findings found] poor legal protections for detainees, who often include ethnic minorities, political dissidents, religious activists and Falun Gong believers.

Mr Nowak said China still did not exclude statements made as a result of torture, presume innocence, allow avoidance of self-incrimination, permit habeas corpus or even have a system for lodging complaints.

Somebody call Dick Durbin. I'm sure he'll want to condemn China's policies and compare them to those of fascist dictatorial regimes.

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