Detainees’ rights in pre-trial detention houses are a means of assessing a country’s human rights protection. As a legal facility for carrying out criminal detention, a pre-trial detention house should remain neutra...Detainees’ rights in pre-trial detention houses are a means of assessing a country’s human rights protection. As a legal facility for carrying out criminal detention, a pre-trial detention house should remain neutral and safeguard detainees’ substantive and procedural rights. It should be an important base for the country to respect and protect human rights. At the macro level, protecting detainees’ rights comprises two aspects: 1) procedural rights, regarding which the principle of presumption of innocence should be applied; and 2) detainee treatment, regarding which the principle of socialization should be applied. At the current stage of China’s rights protection situation, China should improve detainees’ rights, such as the right to have an individual bed, the rights to health care and religious freedom, rules regarding the use of legirons, and transparency and independent monitoring mechanisms.展开更多
文摘Detainees’ rights in pre-trial detention houses are a means of assessing a country’s human rights protection. As a legal facility for carrying out criminal detention, a pre-trial detention house should remain neutral and safeguard detainees’ substantive and procedural rights. It should be an important base for the country to respect and protect human rights. At the macro level, protecting detainees’ rights comprises two aspects: 1) procedural rights, regarding which the principle of presumption of innocence should be applied; and 2) detainee treatment, regarding which the principle of socialization should be applied. At the current stage of China’s rights protection situation, China should improve detainees’ rights, such as the right to have an individual bed, the rights to health care and religious freedom, rules regarding the use of legirons, and transparency and independent monitoring mechanisms.
