CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880 — Page 263

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not then I must again argue against it as evidence that torture is sometimes employed at the time. I have reasons for suppressing that if employed on that occasion it was on that occasion merely, knowing that its employment was with a view that...

remark that in China? I may note the reporter does not speak of it as if it were something unheard of.

New Law In either the Supreme Court or a Consular Court of 1879 shown that punishments of great cruelty are inflicted by the mixed courts. It gives a bit of I think some 24 cases tried by those mixed courts in 1879. Damages, from $100 to $300, were awarded: a few, the culprits were punished also. In six cases the assessor was a British Subject and the culprit was punished apart from the punishment in two of them.

(2) Next regards extradition. If the remark that promises against torture are exacted, I ask of what avail are such promises if they are not observed? See the case in the North China Herald of July 29th, 1879, showing that 13 prisoners were tortured.

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259 not then I must again argue against it as evidence that torture is sometimes employed at the time. I have reasons for suppressing that if employed on that occasion it was on that occasion merely, knowing that its employment was with a view that... remark that in China? I may note the reporter does not speak of it as if it were something unheard of. New Law In either the Supreme Court or a Consular Court of 1879 shown that punishments of great cruelty are inflicted by the mixed courts. It gives a bit of I think some 24 cases tried by those mixed courts in 1879. Damages, from $100 to $300, were awarded: a few, the culprits were punished also. In six cases the assessor was a British Subject and the culprit was punished apart from the punishment in two of them. (2) Next regards extradition. If the remark that promises against torture are exacted, I ask of what avail are such promises if they are not observed? See the case in the North China Herald of July 29th, 1879, showing that 13 prisoners were tortured. Has
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