十一届全国人大五次会议表决通过了刑事诉讼法修正案草案。这次修改,是在1996年我国刑事司法制度和诉讼制度进行重大改革基础上的又一次重要改革和完善,将更加适应惩治犯罪的需要,更好适应经济社会发展需要,更好地维护社会公平正义,尊重和保障人权,在社会主义法律体系中起主干作用。 The Fifth Session of the Eleventh National People’s Congress voted to pass the amendment to the Criminal Procedure Law. This amendment is another major reform and improvement on the basis of major reforms in China’s criminal justice system and litigation system in 1996, will be more adapted to the needs of punishing crimes, better meet the needs of economic and social development and better safeguard social fairness Justice, respect and protection of human rights play a key role in the socialist legal system.