47. The Government &apos; s willingness to acknowledge the pervasiveness of torture was confirmed when the Supreme People &apos; s Procuratorate published The Crime of Tortured Confession (Xingxun Bigong Zui) in late 1997, including China &apos; s first public official statistics on criminal cases of tortured confession - reporting an average of 364 cases per year between 1979 and 1989, upward of 400 cases per year for most years in the 1990s, and the admission that 241 persons had been tortured to death over the two-year period 1993-1994.
54 47. 以下事实可以确认政府愿意承认普遍存在酷刑现象，即1997年下半年，最高人民检察院发表了一份题为 &quot; 刑讯逼供罪 &quot; 的报告，其中列入了中国第一次公布的有关刑讯逼供刑事案件的官方统计数字。