Some 250,000 officials have been on the receiving end of disciplinary action in the last two years. But legal scholars and others are concerned that the body responsible, the Central Commission for Discipline and Inspection, is using torture on a widespread scale. Some of the deaths which are described as suicides are thought to have come, instead, as a result of torture sessions.

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The commision has become a very powerful body. It has also been involved into investigations into western companies including GlaxoSmithKline - and many western lawyers will have come across its staff. Source: Financial Times