International Campaign for Tibet. “End Torture in Tibet”. Retrieved April 20th, 2008 – “In November 2005 the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Dr Manfred Nowak, visited China and Tibet. This is the first time the SR on Torture has been able to visit China and Tibet, after successive efforts failed due to Chinese opposition.
The People’s Republic of China ratified the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment (CAT) in October 1988 and outlawed certain forms of torture in 1997. Nonetheless, today torture continues to be used extensively in Tibet’s network of prisons and labor camps with the full knowledge of the PRC’s leadership. [see link for more information]
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