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China dismisses UN report on torture, says committee biased

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Posted: Nov 23, 2008 at 1325 hrs IST

Beijing, November 23: China has dismissed a UN report on allegations of widespread torture in the country, accusing those who compiled it of using false information.

"It is a pity that some of the committee members responsible for compiling the concluding observations, due to their prejudice towards China... used some fabricated information," foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said.

"They included a lot of slander, false information, acted unfairly and unobjectively, and we resolutely oppose this," Qin said in a statement on the ministry's website on Saturday.

The United Nations Committee Against Torture called on China to probe rights abuses and investigate the crushing of the 1989 pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square.

"The committee remains deeply concerned about the continued allegations, corroborated by numerous Chinese legal sources, of routine and widespread use of torture and ill treatment of suspects in police custody, especially to extract confessions or information to be used in criminal proceedings," it said in a report released Friday.

Qin said China continued to "make every effort to safeguard human rights" and that it opposes torture.

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Bamponthys in India lead Muslim Christian OBC SC ST in this protest against imperial report. by Seclallular Bamponty on 23 Nov 2008

Statesmen of Bampont are leading the progressib communities of Muslim Christian OBC SC and ST against this imperial report of Hindu Brahmans and Jews against noble mighty superpower Chin who is leading the world in seclallularism, demonocracy and progressib under great guidance of Chao Mao Hu Jintao.

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