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China’s Pincer move against regulated detentions

China's institutionalization of two systems for secret and extra-legal detentions, RSDL and Liuzhi, sees continued growth, hollowing our regulated detention and criminal procedure.

Factsheet: RSDL

The two-page factsheet on China's system for secret jails, RSDL, provides up to date data on scale and scope of the system, and its basic functioning. 

Hide and Seek: China’s Extradition Problem

Hide and Seek is the most comprehensive manual ever assembled on the issue of extraditions to China.

Returned Without Rights: State of Extraditions to China

Returned Without Rights: State of Extraditions to China is a report that outlines how extraditions undermine the rule of law and international legal obligations in target countries

Factsheet: China and Extradition

The two-page factsheet on Extradition and China presents an overview of the current status of extraditions to China, key issues for international law and rule of law, and policy re

Involuntary Returns

The Involuntary Returns report blows the lid off China's far-ranging long-arm policing operation Sky Net, the 10,000 targets so far returned, and the legal basis allowing for kidnapping abroad. 

Pursued For Life

Pursued For Life 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 Blockade

China's Legal Blockage examines how the authorities are increasingly denying suspects access to legal counsel by targeting the victim, their families, and their lawyers. The report documents the lawyers persecuted and examples where suspects were denied their own choice of legal representation.

Strategies of Silence - Joint Report on China's UPR commitments

Strategies of Silence 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

China's Hunt for Taiwanese Overseas maps how, and where, the PRC is pursuing Taiwanese citizens to have them repatriated to the PRC rather than Taiwan, spanning 2016 to 2019. 

No Room To Run

No Room To Run 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. 

Submission to HRC on NSC, use of liuzhi, and UNODC cooperation

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.

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