Dissidents and foreign businesspeople will be far more likely to be secretly detained in China if new provisions in criminal procedure law are adopted as expected, human rights groups warned yesterday.
The first revision to China’s criminal procedure law since 1996 would make it legal for police to detain suspects secretly and outside the formal detention system for up to six months if they have been accused of crimes related to terrorism, national security or “major bribery”.
The revised law is expected to be approved by China’s rubber stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress, today.
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