Chinese-American venture capitalist Charles Xue, widely known as Xue Manzi, attends a meeting at the 2012 Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing in this May 10, 2012 picture. A series of confessions by foreign and local executives on China's state-controlled television has spurred anxiety among the business community about a trend that some lawyers say makes a mockery of due process. Xue appeared on state CCTV on Thursday to confess to visiting prostitutes, a crime in China. Picture taken May 10, 2012. REUTERS/Stringer
BEIJING (Reuters) - A series of confessions by foreign and local executives on China's state-controlled television has spurred anxiety among the business community about a trend that some lawyers say makes a mockery of due process.
Confessions have long been part of China's legal landscape, with petty criminals routinely admitting their guilt on television.
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