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| Police torture in China still routine despite reforms - rights group |
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 Six years after China took steps to crack down on torture by police, detainees continue to be beaten, hanged by their wrists and shackled to iron chairs, New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. The report comes six months before China is due to face scrutiny by a U.N. panel against torture and following a pledge by President Xi Jinping to boost the rule of law. The ruling Communist Party is looking to quell public discontent over several high-profile miscarriages of justice, with China's top court unveiling legal reforms in February to halt the use of torture to gain evidence. "Police are torturing criminal suspects to get them to confess to crimes and courts are convicting people who confessed under torture," Human Rights Watch said in its report, however.
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| N.Korea executes defence chief with an anti-aircraft gun - S.Korea agency |
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 By Ju-min Park and James Pearson SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has executed its defence chief on treason charges by putting him in front of an anti-aircraft gun at a firing range, Seoul's National Intelligence Service (NIS) told lawmakers. Hyon Yong Chol, 66, who headed the isolated country's military, was purged late last month for disobeying Kim Jong Un and falling asleep during a meeting at which North Korea's young leader was present, according to South Korean lawmakers briefed in a closed-door meeting with the spy agency on Wednesday. It was not clear how the NIS received the information and it is not possible to independently verify such reports from within secretive North Korea. Hyon was believed to have voiced complaints against Kim Jong Un and had not followed his orders several times, according to the lawmakers.
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