Also, according to the HRW article:
> The Chinese government is pitching the proposed change as merely an extension of the conditions of the existing practice of residential surveillance, or “soft arrest,” to suspects in state security, terrorism or major corruption cases. “Soft arrest” allows police to confine criminal suspects to their homes for up to six months without trial or due legal process.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_El-Masri
A different Khalid al-Masri is a suspected member of al Qaeda. So they tortured the wrong Khalid. Oops.
This is why basic things like the right to a trial, open court proceedings that journalists can attend, the Geneva convention prohibiting torture, etc etc are so important.
To trust a government to decide guilt in secret is to be ignorant of history.