Paper Title
Revisiting the Periodic Report of the Committee against Torture and the Law in Action: Chinese Exceptionalism?

Abstract
China has been a State party to the Convention against Torture since 1988. It has submitted periodic reports on its compliance with the Convention to a committee against torture.This article examines the approach taken by the Committee against torture over the course of its reviews, in 1990, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2008, and 2015.China has not presented its sixth periodic report to the Committee against Torture which is overdue since December 2019.China became increasingly unwilling to facilitate the Committee's examination of human rights practices of the government. The Chinese authorities displayed a hostility towards the use by the Committee (and other UN human rights bodies) of sources of information other than that provided by the government.This article focuses on China's approach to the prohibition and prevention of torture in practice, following the initiation of judicial reform and the establishment of the "four platforms" of public disclosure. It further examines how the judgments of cases that have been made public and the relevant existing legal texts have played a role in practice. The article will also examine the judicial dialogue between what China has said about the prohibition of torture in its submitted State party’s reports and how related issues are dealt with in Chinese domestic practice. Keywords - Torture; Chinese Domestic Practice; State Obligations; Periodic Report.