Chinese government intensifies extrajudicial mechanisms to rapidly expand web of relentless – and often illegal - policing operations around the globe, rights group claims (safeguarddefenders.com)
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Chinese government intensifies extrajudicial mechanisms to rapidly expand web of relentless – and often illegal - policing operations around the globe, rights group claims (safeguarddefenders.com)
Here is the report (pdf)....
Chinese government intensifies extrajudicial mechanisms to rapidly expand web of relentless – and often illegal - policing operations around the globe, rights group claims (safeguarddefenders.com)
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Elderly Chinese rights lawyer who was tortured in detention is finally free after six years and six months behind bars (safeguarddefenders.com)
While she was incarcerated, the 74-year-old Chinese human rights lawyer Li Yuhan was subjected to inhumane abuse and mental torture. This included denying her essential medicines for serious diseases such as heart issues, forcing her to take ice baths and depriving her of food and water. Officers also humiliated her by urinating...
Elderly Chinese rights lawyer who was tortured in detention is finally free, rights group reports (safeguarddefenders.com)
After six years and six months behind bars, 74-year-old Chinese human rights lawyer Li Yuhan is finally free....
Human rights group launches Help Center to counter extraditions to China (safeguarddefenders.com)
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Human rights group launches Help Center to counter extraditions to China (safeguarddefenders.com)
The Information and Help Center to counter extraditions to the People’s Republic of China is available in English, Chinese, Arabic, French, Spanish, and Russian....
China took aim at Taiwan with fake TV confession, rights group says (safeguarddefenders.com)
China’s forced TV confession of Meng-Chu Li, a Taiwanese businessman who spent almost four years locked up or under an exit ban in China, was a crude attempt to attack Taiwan and warn it against voicing support for democracy in Hong Kong, the rights group Safeguard Defenders says....
New information suggests UK citizen Ian Stones held in Chinese prison (safeguarddefenders.com)
Stones’ detention and arrest (2018) and subsequent imprisonment (2022) had previously been kept from the public. According to media reports and what would be in line with China’s consistent violations of consular treaties, UK consular authorities were prevented access to his sentencing hearing....
New information suggests UK citizen Ian Stones held in Chinese prison (safeguarddefenders.com)
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China, new series of forced televised confessions highlights CCP’s increased crackdown over vast swathes of society under the guise of “anti-corruption” work, rights group says (safeguarddefenders.com)
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New series of forced televised confessions highlights CCP’s increased crackdown over vast swathes of society under the guise of “anti-corruption” work, rights group says (safeguarddefenders.com)
Each one-hour episode of a recently started TV series called Continued Efforts, Deepening Progress (持续发力 纵深推进) contained a myriad of people appearing on camera to “repent their sins”, including some 29 people who are currently in custody....
Human rights group urges Western democracies to suspend bilateral extradition agreements with China over Beijing's "abusive warrants, bounties and groundless charges" (safeguarddefenders.com)
In December, the Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) issued arrest warrants and 1 million HKD bounties on the heads of five Hong Kong democracy activists and human rights defenders....
Human rights group urges Western democracies to suspend bilateral extradition agreements with China over Beijing's "abusive warrants, bounties and groundless charges" (safeguarddefenders.com)
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Safeguard Defenders: Why does China keep disappearing female reporters? (safeguarddefenders.com)
China’s government is continuing with its system of state-sanctioned kidnapping, legalised in 2012, that it is using against thousands of people every year....
'China's Consular Volunteers:' Beijing formalizes establishment of network of individuals aiming to suppress dissent and intimidate exiled citizens abroad, mostly without knowledge of host countries (safeguarddefenders.com)
A most recent State Council Decree by China that entered into force on September 1, 2023, formalizes the establishment of consular volunteer networks, seemingly undeclared to most host nations, the Human Rights Group Safeguarddefenders says....
Be careful taking photos in China or you may end up in secret jail, rights group warns (safeguarddefenders.com)
Taiwanese businessman Morrison Lee spent almost four years locked up or under an exit ban in China, detained only because he had postcards deemed sensitive and a few publicly-taken shots of military vehicles on his phone....
Safeguard Defenders releasing pilot reporting guide for targets of Chinese transnational repression (safeguarddefenders.com)
The guide – a precursor to an extensive interactive reporting toolkit – provides victims with reporting lines as provided by the authorities in several countries. It is available in English, Uyghur, Tibetan as well as in Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
China’s exit bans are now so extreme that they are prompting daring escapes, with one man escaping on a jet ski (safeguarddefenders.com)
Here’s a more detailed report (pdf): safeguarddefenders.com/…/Trapped - China’s Expand…
As the world commemorates Day of the Disappeared, China buckles down on its use (safeguarddefenders.com)
Disappeared critic abroad emerges in Chinese detention center (safeguarddefenders.com)
On 24 August, James Lin, a human rights activist in the Netherlands, posted a notification of arrest issued on 7 July by the affiliated sub-bureau directly under the Hengyang Public Security Bureau. It states that Yang has been arrested on charges of “inciting subversion of the state power” and is currently detained at the...
Disappeared critic abroad emerges in Chinese detention center (safeguarddefenders.com)
On 24 August, James Lin, a human rights activist in the Netherlands, posted a notification of arrest issued on 7 July by the affiliated sub-bureau directly under the Hengyang Public Security Bureau. It states that Yang has been arrested on charges of “inciting subversion of the state power” and is currently detained at the...
China is threatening Uyghurs in Türkiye to spy on diaspora, human rights activists say (safeguarddefenders.com)
The People’s Republic of China is increasingly pressuring Uyghurs living in Türkiye to spy on the local Uyghur diaspora, according to Safeguard Defenders. Chinese police leverage intelligence gathered from these networks to coerce Uyghurs into spying for them, keeping quiet about China’s human rights abuses or producing...
China is threatening Uyghurs in Türkiye to spy on diaspora, human rights activists say (safeguarddefenders.com)
The People’s Republic of China is increasingly pressuring Uyghurs living in Türkiye to spy on the local Uyghur diaspora, according to Safeguard Defenders. Chinese police leverage intelligence gathered from these networks to coerce Uyghurs into spying for them, keeping quiet about China’s human rights abuses or producing...
China's judiciary, conviction rate in 2022 reaches 99.975% while criminal justice data culled from official reports and database (safeguarddefenders.com)
Some 1,430,000 criminal verdicts at court of first instance were issued in 2022. Of those, 354 were not guilty judgments, the NGO Safeguard Defenders says.
