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date, after describing the ordinary forms of judicial torture in use at the Criminal Courts of Canton, that, "such is without question the process to which every prisoner renditioned by the Government of Hongkong will be subjected, should he prove obdurate in confession?

It seems that, according to the ordinary Chinese Criminal procedure, sentence cannot be pronounced nor punishment inflicted, until the prisoner has confessed his crime; and that the torture inflicted in Court is an essential preliminary, whenever any prisoner refuses to confess.

Lord Granville in the above-mentioned despatch remarks: "it is impossible to insist upon the whole of the Chinese judicial machinery being set aside in the preliminary examination of criminals in order to meet the views of foreign Governments; while at the same time his Lordship directs that "the customary promise

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* Enclosure to Mr Marsh's despatch 130 of February, 1883.

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date, after describing the ordinary forms of judicial torture in use at the Criminal Courts of Canton, that, "such is without question the process to which every prisoner renditioned by the Government of Hongkong will be subjected, should he prove obdurate in confession? It seems that, according to the ordinary Chinese Criminal procedure, sentence cannot be pronounced nor punishment inflicted, until the prisoner has confessed his crime; and that the torture inflicted in Court is an essential preliminary, whenever any prisoner refuses to confess. Lord Granville in the above-mentioned despatch remarks: "it is impossible to insist upon the whole of the Chinese judicial machinery being set aside in the preliminary examination of criminals in order to meet the views of foreign Governments; while at the same time his Lordship directs that "the customary promise Page 287 * Enclosure to Mr Marsh's despatch 130 of February, 1883. Gov 574 # set aside in the preliminary. # examination of criminals
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