Pursued For Life: Hong Kong’s global hunt for fugitives, the National Security Law, and risk of INTERPOL misuse (2022) is an investigation into threats by HKPF and HK government to use INTERPOL and other channels to capture exiled ex-lawmakers and protesters using the National Security Law as the basis.

Access Denied: China's Legal Blockage (2021) examines the multitude of ways the authorities are increasingly using to deny suspects access to independent legal counsel by targeting the victim, their families and their lawyers. The report includes in-depth interviews with lawyers and family members of victims and documents the dozens of lawyers persecuted for taking on cases and countless examples where suspects were denied their own choice of legal representation.

Strategies of Silence: Repression of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Lawyers, and Journalists (2021) is a joint mid-term assessment of the 2018 Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of China, by Safeguard Defenders, International Service for Human Rights, Reporters Without Borders, Frontline Defenders, and The 29 Principles.
 

China's Hunt for Taiwanese Overseas: The PRC's use of extradition and deportation to undermine Taiwanese sovereignty (2021) maps how, and where, the PRC is pursuing Taiwanese citizens to have them repatriated to the PRC rather than Taiwan from 2016 to 2019. 

No Room To Run: China’s expanded mis(use) of INTERPOL since the rise of Xi Jinping (2021) in an investigation into the expansion of INTERPOL, China's use of it - past and present, and the failure of INTERPOL to protect against misuse of Red Notices and Diffusions. 

The submission provides evidence on the scale of use of the NSC's liuzhi system for arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances, and issues concerning UN agency UNODC entering into cooperation with the NSC, and refusal to release the content of the agreement.

Locked Up: Inside China's Secret RSDL Jails (2021). This graphic-heavy guide to RSDL utilises comic strips, architectural plans, satellite imagery and imagined documentation, all of it sourced from victims’ testimonies, to carry the reader into the cell, into the interrogation room, and even the tiger chair.

A submission to Special Procedures of the UN's Human Rights Council (HRC), to provide new data that highlight new trends in China’s use of RSDL.

Presumed Guilty presents official data on arrests, prosecutions, trials, and convictions in the Chinese criminal justice system, and seeks to serve as an invaluable background resource to understand the issue of fair trials, judicial standards, and how, statistically, once one is arrested, a conviction at trial is near-guaranteed. Data covering the rule of Xi Jinping, 2013 to 2020. 

Access Denied: China's False Freedom (2021) is the first in-depth study of the Non-Release Release (NRR) phenomenon in China, in which prisoners, freed from jail or a detention centre, continue to be arbitrarily detained by the police at their home, at a hotel or in a secret location for weeks, months or even years. The report features interviews with victims and their families and analyses data on NRR including where it is most often imposed and the excuses given by police for this illegal extension of imprisonment. 

Access Denied - China's Vanishing Suspects (2020). This concise and insightful report investigates how police in China are forcing victims, many of whom are human rights defenders, to take a fake name in pre-trial detention, stopping them from seeing a lawyer. This is the first volume in the three-part Access Denied series that examines the serious deterioration in the rule of law in China since 2012 when Xi Jinping took power. 

Rampant Repression – A data analysis of China’s use of Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (2013-2020) (2020). This brief report was the first of its kind, and shows the scale and scope of China's ever more popular system for disappearing rather than detaining critics. Drawing on official judicial system data, Safeguard Defenders' report provides insight into how the system has expanded and grown with Xi Jinping at power, and presents data on how many victims the system has had, and is likely to have in the years to come.