text: UNITED NATIONS CAT Convention agains - t Torture Dish. GENERAL and Other Cruel, Inhuman CAT/C/7/Add.5 - -~ 2 Treatment 6 December 1989 or Degrading or Punishment Original: ENGLISH COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS SUBMITTED BY STATES PARTIES UNDER ARTICLE 19 OF THE CONVENTION . . reoorts of States partnes due In 1988 Addendm CHINA [l December 19891 CATfCl7lAdd.5 Page 2 1. The Third Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China ratified in September 1988 the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (hereinafter referred to as the Convention). On 3 November of the same year, China became a party to the Convention. 2. In accordance with Article 19 of the Convention, the People's Republic of China submits herewith her first report on the implementation of the Convention. i I. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONVENTION 3. The People's Republic of China has always attached great importance to proticting the rights of the person and democratic rights of citizens, and is resolute in opposing torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Over the years China's legislative, judicial and administrative organs have done a great deal of work in ensuring the rights of the person and democratic rights of citizens by law and have achieved prominent results. 4. Article 37 of the revised Constitution of the People's Republic of China, which was adopted on 4 December 1982 at the Fifth Session of the Fifth National People's Congreso, clearly stipulates that: "Freedom of the person of citizens of the People's Republic of China is inviolable. No citizen may be arrested except with the approval or by decision of a people's procuratorate or by decision of a people's court, and 
analysis: The text appears to be a report submitted by the People's Republic of China to the United Nations Committee Against Torture, detailing the country's implementation of the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The report focuses on the legal framework and measures taken by the government to protect the rights of individuals and prevent torture.