So says this report. http://www.rawstory.com/...
China has abandoned controversial plans to make it legal to “disappear” criminal suspects following a huge public outcry, in a move hailed as a victory for judicial reformers.
Proposed changes to China’s criminal law being debated this week by parliament originally included a clause that allowed police to hold people suspected of terrorism or endangering national security in secret locations without notifying their families....
...Under the final draft of the amended law, police have to notify the family that a suspect is being held under residential surveillance in an undisclosed location within 24 hours, no matter what his or her alleged crime.
The original clause had also stipulated this, but made an exception in cases of terrorism or national security, when notifying the family would “obstruct the investigation.”
It's not all roses, as the Commies still make a distinction between "residential surveillance" and "detentions in the case of terrorism and national security," in the latter case family notification not being required.
And, as with all the power elites everywhere, why would a law exist if not to be broken?
But I do think it worthwhile to point out that at least China's Parliament was successfully pressured to change the formal law to assure rights to a very large portion of those detained.
Maybe here we can get Congress to rule that The War Formerly Known As On Terrorism is over, or something like that. Start a chain-reaction which has all these anti-American things we do to our population lose their legitimacy. Where "due process" is whatever the hell a President says it is, and all travelers are unreasonably searched, even little girls and old men in wheelchairs.
Just a thought.
Have matters to attend to, will not have a chance to check in on the diary for awhile.
Thanks.