Foreign police say you have the right to remain silent, but what if the suspect still refuses to admit guilt?

----"Zero confession" is an implementation of "valuing evidence and not taking confessions lightly". The law stipulates that judicial officers should not take confessions lightly. However, influenced by traditional judicial habits, case investigators often attach great importance to or even rely on confessions and put a lot of energy into them. This strong "confession complex" can easily lead to torture and extortion of confessions, resulting in unjust, false and wrongful convictions. The proposal of "zero confession" will help judicial personnel downplay and weaken the role of confession, abandon the "confession complex", and thereby reduce the use of torture to extract confessions.

----"Zero confession" is a guarantee for the defendant's right to silence. When watching foreign police movies, it is common to see that the police must explain a right to the arrested suspect: "You have the right to remain silent, and everything you say will be used as evidence in court." This is the famous "Miranda" law". Although our country's laws do not require that criminal suspects be given an explicit right to silence, the proposal of "zero confession" is undoubtedly a pursuit of protecting the right to silence.

----"Zero confession" is a manifestation of the principle of presumption of innocence. It was often seen in domestic TV dramas in the past that the police asked the suspect to tell what he was doing at what time? Who can prove it? If you can't explain clearly, it seems to be a presumption: he did the bad thing. Let the suspect prove his innocence, which is a typical presumption of guilt. "Zero confession" shows from another perspective that to accuse a criminal suspect or defendant of guilt, the case handling agency must present evidence, rather than assuming guilt first and then letting the defendant (criminal suspect) clear his name.

-----"Zero confession" is a subversion of the traditional criminal policy of "resistance and strictness". Since last year, in China’s detention centers, detention centers, prisons and even the interrogation rooms of public security bureaus, the eye-catching slogans “Leniency for confessions and severity for resistance” have been erased, replaced by “Leniency for confessions and permission to remain silent.” . This means that the traditional criminal policy of "resistance to strictness" has withdrawn from the stage of history, and "zero confession" is no longer news.

To sum up, the real value of "zero confession" lies not in the explanation of the social philosophy of "a wide open legal network, but no omissions", but in that it embodies a progress in the concept of criminal justice. This is essentially It reflects an equal respect for and protection of the human rights of criminal suspects or defendants.