Investigating human rights violators: A primer on how to track down information on individuals and entities in China and Hong Kong (2020). A help document, taken from the full Fighting Impunity guide, that focuses on how to how to track down data and personal details on individuals suspected of committing human rights violations or being corrupt, with focus on Hong Kong and China. Developed with help of corporate due diligence experts.
Coerced on Camera: Televised Confessions in Vietnam (2020) is a ground-breaking new study of how Vietnamese police parade human rights defenders from lawyers, villagers fighting land grabs to foreigners in front of TV cameras long before trial. The report, the first of its kind, analyses footage and interviews victims, and concludes that Vietnam may be learning a few tricks from China in making these illegal confession videos.
Fighting Impunity: A guide on how civil society can use Magnitsky Acts to sanction human rights violators (2020). The first-ever comprehensive guide, based on candid and anonymous interviews with diplomats, government officials, and study of past work with submitting human rights violators for sanctions. Offers step by step guidance on how to file violators for sanctioning using best practice methods.
Safeguard Defenders' Comprehensive report and review of Liuzhi and the NSC (2019) is a submission to nine United Nations Special Procedures. It lays out in unprecedented detail how China's new National Supervision Commission (NSC) and liuzhi, its system for disappearing suspects for up to six months, are operating. It also identifies a number of new developments related to the NSC, and how the new National Security Law and Liuzhi are being used to undermine the existing rights and protections within China's judicial system.
A report developed and submitted (2018) by Safeguard Defenders, International Service for Human Rights, The Rights Practice, and the Network for Chinese Human Rights Defenders, concerning the issue of enforced disappearances within the RSDL - Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location, in China. Report was provided to 15 UN Special Procedures ahead of Human RIghts Council meeting, drawing on both legal analysis, public and non-public data and information on use of the RSDL system.
NGO stakeholder submission - UPR China 3rd cycle (2018). Safeguard Defenders submission to the 3rd cycle of the Universal Periodic Review of China. The submission focuses on the issue of RSDL, China's use of disappearances, and the systematic use of torture inside the RSDL system. The report also follows up on a prior UPR submission at the 2nd cycle in 2014, showing developments concerning these issues.
The use of solitary confinement in RSDL as a method of torture (2019). This brief report analyses the use of solitary confinement on detainees under Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL) through the lens of international law and concludes that its use at these secret facilities with no independent oversight clearly constitutes torture.
From Central Control to National Supervision (2018). This report looks at China's new National Supervision Commission, a super agency responsible for detaining suspects from the Party and the government, and its system of enforced disappearances, liuzhi. By comparing it to a parallel form of detention, RSDL and its predecessor, shuanggui, it predicts the massive reach of this new and feared system that is little understood.
Battered and Bruised: Why torture continues to stand at the heart of China's judicial system (2018). This report is based on research conducted by a group of Chinese lawyers with experience trying to protect their clients from torture and to secure the disqualification of confessions procured through torture. Battered and Bruised documents commonly practiced torture methods and why the country's legal system continues to fail to prevent its use.
The People's Republic of the Disappeared: Stories from inside China's system for enforced disappearances (Second edition) (2019). Edited by Michael Caster. This critically acclaimed book, utilizing first-person accounts from victims to terrifying effect, was the first of its kind to expose China's then little known system for disappearing its critics - RSDL. It also offers the most exhaustive analysis of domestic and international law yet.
Trial By Media: China's new show trials, and the global expansion of Chinese media (2018). Edited by Peter Dahlin. Through the use of first-person accounts from victims, this book explains in detail how China's forced TV confessions are made and exposes the active role China's state media has played in creating them via its collaboration with police. It also charts the Party's tightening control over the media and its aggressive international expansion.
