China ‘fails to meet torture obligations’ according to Amnesty International report

China has failed to live up to its obligations to comply with an international convention against torture, according to a report by Amnesty International.

A UN panel is due to meet within days in Geneva to review whether China has followed through on promises against the use of torture, and Beijing is expected to claim that it has fulfilled the pledges.

However, Amnesty said the country’s deep-rooted use of torture to extract confessions from suspects has seen little improvement despite measures introduced since 2010 to reform the legal system.