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Biddulph, Sarah --- "Arbitrary detention" [2019] ELECD 1311; in Biddulph, Sarah; Rosenzweig, Joshua (eds), "Handbook on Human Rights in China" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 371

Book Title: Handbook on Human Rights in China

Editor(s): Biddulph, Sarah; Rosenzweig, Joshua

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 18

Section Title: Arbitrary detention

Author(s): Biddulph, Sarah

Number of pages: 26

Abstract/Description:

Despite constitutional and legal reforms to strengthen regulatory controls over detention in China, arbitrary detention remains widespread. This chapter examines the ways in which detention becomes arbitrary across criminal and administrative justice and growing instances where individuals and groups suffer detention that is completely without legal foundation.