Report No. 273

(iv) China

2.32 China ratified the CAT in 1988. Since its ratification, the Committee has had four reviews and is currently in its fifth review cycle. The Committee against Torture - the international panel of experts that assesses State compliance under the CAT, last reviewed China in 2008. Since then, the government has made a series of reforms to its criminal justice system after domestic press exposed cases of severe torture of criminal suspects leading to wrongful convictions, deaths, and a public outcry.38