E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.6 page 33 these cases spread, reports of other wrongful convictions emerged. “The Unjust Case of She Xianglin Murdering His Wife: the Price of Efforts to Seek Redress and Innocence on a Common Chinese Peasant Household” [She Xianglin sha qi yuanan: yige putong zhongguo nongmin jiating de shenyuan zhilu yu qingbai daijia], Southern Metropolitan Daily (Online), 5 April 05. “The ‘Nie,’ ‘She’ Cases in Lawyers’ Eyes: Rethinking Necessary Before Judicial System Can Be Improved” [lüshi yanzhong de “Nie”, “She” liangan: fansi cai neng dailai sifa tizhi de gaishan], Criminal Defense Net (Online), 13 April 05; “Legal Redemption for Erroneous Death Sentences” [Sixing wupan de falü jiushu], Modern Bulletin (Online), 16 March 05; Tang Weibin, Li Changzheng, “How Do Unjust Cases Come About? Following the Trail of Hubei’s She Xianglin ‘Wife Murder’ Case” [Yuanan shi zenme zaocheng de? Hubei She Xianglin “sha qi” an zhuizong], Procuratorate Daily (Online), 8 April 05; “Analyzing the Xu Jingxiang Unjust Case”[Xu Jingxiang yuanan pouxi], China Youth Online, 10 May 05; “Don’t Allow the Wings of Justice to Break: Using Unjust Cases to Look at Confessions Extorted Through Torture, [Bie rangzhengyi zheduan le chibang: cong mianan kan xingxun bigong], Legal Daily (Online), 22 April 05; “Return of ‘Murdered Wife’ Calls China’s Judicial System in Question”, People’s Daily (Online); “Behave Prosecutors to Protect Innocent”, China Daily, 28 May 05 (FBIS, 28 May 05); Ge Lin, “Why a Not Guilty Verdict Is a Rarity of Rarities” [Wuzui panjue weihe fengmaolinjiao], Southern Weekend (Online), 16 June 05; Jiang Hong, “Commentary: Use Vigorous Legal Supervision to Prevent Unjust Cases” [Shelun: yong qiang you li de falü jiandu fangzhi cuoan], Justice Net (Online), 26 April05; Yuan Zhengbing, Cui Zuojun, Liu Jinlin, “To Prevent Unjust Cases, Firmly Grasp the Relation with Arresting Personnel”, Procuratorate Daily (Online). 53 For example, a hard-hitting study by legal expert Chen Yunsheng of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences published in 2003 contained a graphic enumeration of the thirteen most common methods of torture in China. Towards Human Rights and the Rule of Law - Anti-torture Analysis, by Chen Yunsheng, China Social Science Publishing House, September 2003, first edition. In March 2005 the China Legal Studies Associations’ Group On The Prevention of the Use of Torture in Interrogation undertook a ground-breaking “Study of the Prevention of and Counter Measures for The Extortion of Confessions”, involving, inter alia, field research in Changchun, Jilin, and Yenji in Jilin Province and the cities of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Beijing, Tianjin and other cities in Guangdong Province. The project involved investigators, prosecutors, public security personnel, lawyers, and other legal personnel as well as academics from the legal and social sciences fields. For examples of Chinese reports on specific cases of torture, see Two Hainan Police Officers Sentenced for Causing Death by Extorting Confessions, The Beijing News, 11 November 2005; “Sichuan Investigates and Prosecutes A Case Where Torture Led to Person’s Death” [Sichuan chachu yiqi xingxun bigong zhiren siwang an], China Youth Daily (Online), 18 November 04; Zhou Wenying and Zou Shilai, “Jiangxi Fuzhou: Make Inquiries an Required Procedure in Examining Arrests” [Jiangxi Fuzhou: ba xunwen zuowei shencha daibu bijing chengxu], Procuratorial Daily (Online), 4 January 05 (noting that interviews of suspects uncovered more than 29 cases including extended detention, torture, or violations of criminal procedure by public security personnel); Liu Li, “Sixty Officials Charged with Dereliction of Duty, Abuse of Power”, China Daily (Online), 26 January 05 (noting that “some” of the sixty Beijing officials charged “used torture to coerce statements”); “Detention Discipline Incites Detainees to Whip Convict for Six Hours, Leading to His Death” [Kanshousuo