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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士)
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Safeguard Defenders promotes the rule of law and helps human rights defenders build capacity in Asia. 保护卫士人权组织致力于推动亚洲国家法治，促进人权捍卫者能力建设.
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · 4d
Beyond high-profile military purges and crackdown on entrepreneurs, *brand new* data from China shows a clear expansion of #CCDI investigations, and likely record use of #Liuzhi 2025.

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CCDI data shows crackdown expanding
Recent reporting in both domestic State/Party and international media has highlighted political purges in both the private sector as well as in the military, alongside the long ongoing campaign within...
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · 4d
此前我们文章中有提到的在 #指定居所监视居住 遭刑讯逼供而亡的当事人 #暴钦瑞 今日终于迎来此许正义。11名办案人员因对他的致死以及在同一设施对他人实施酷刑被判刑。
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中国指监秘密监狱中的死亡事件引发国内改革呼声
中国令人生畏的指定居所监视居住（以下简称指监）制度是一种拘留形式，嫌疑人在被正式逮捕前可被隔离在秘密地点长达六个月。这一制度长期以来均受到国际社会的严厉批评。 然而在發生了一系列在指监期间死亡的事件後，近几个月越来越多中国国内的法律专家、辩护律师和一般民众呼吁改革或废除該制度。 联合国人权机构曾谴责指定居所监视居住等同于“强迫失踪”，并称其对被拘留者“遭遇酷刑、不人道或有辱人格待遇或处罚的风险很高...
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · 4d
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影子调查｜宾馆里的刑讯逼供：1名“指居”者死亡，11名办案人员被判刑
澎湃，澎湃新闻，澎湃新闻网，新闻与思想，澎湃是植根于中国上海的时政思想类互联网平台，以最活跃的原创新闻与最冷静的思想分析为两翼，是互联网技术创新与新闻价值传承的结合体，致力于问答式新闻与新闻追踪功能的实践。
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · 4d
One of the people noted as tortured to death in #RSDL (#BaoQinrui) in our earlier article finally receives some justice. 11 cops found guilty for his death, and torture of others at same facility. See article in comment, and our story for background.

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Deaths in China’s RSDL system spark domestic calls for reform
China’s feared Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL) system, a form of detention where the detainee is kept in isolation at a secret location for six months before formal arrest, ha...
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · 11d
And here:

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Liuzhi system expands in use amidst reforms
New data from the CCP itself shows the system expanding rapidly in scale, amidst changes to regulations allowing for solitary confinement at secret locations from the current six up to 16 months, foll...
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · 11d
Suicides of Chinese private entrepreneurs after stints in the #Liuzhi system, and the rise in private businesses targeted by the CCP-run system, were recently explored in two extensive SD articles. It is now in the news again, by the Economist.

Originals >

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Slew of Suicides rocks China’s Liuzhi System
April 16. June 2. July 17. July 27.The dates mark the rapid succession of reported suicides by Chinese entrepreneurs.All four individuals are reported to have been in their early to mid-50’s, with suc...
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · 12d
A estreia em Portugal do premiado filme #AllStaticandNoise, apresentado com o apoio da Safeguard Defenders, ocorreu no dia 8 de outubro de 2025. -- Leia sobre isso aqui

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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · 12d
The Portuguese premiere of the award-winning film #AllStatic&Noise recently took place.

With all seats sold out, the screening and panel discussion brought awareness about the situation in #Xinjiang, and Chinese repression of #Uyghurs abroad, to Portugal.

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Portuguese premier of All Static & Noise
The Portugal premiere of the award-winning film All Static & Noise, presented with the support of Safeguard Defenders, took place on 8 October 2025 at Cinema City Alvalade in Lisbon, Portugal. A trail...
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · 14d
中国的监狱生活极其艰苦。保持联系对于服刑者以及他们的亲人来说，是一条支撑希望的生命线。以下是一对维权情侣的故事——服刑者所在的监狱滥用权力，无故拦截信件，残酷地切断了他们本已脆弱的联系。
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中国监狱的残酷现实
中国监狱法「第四十七条  罪犯在服刑期间可以与他人通信，但是来往信件应当经过监狱检查。监狱发现有碍罪犯改造内容的信件，可以扣留。罪犯写给监狱的上级机关和司法机关的信件，不受检查。」
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · 14d
Life is so hard in #Chinese prisons the right to communicate with the outside world is a crucial lifeline for those inside and loved ones outside. Here’s a story of how one prison abused its power, cruelly blocking letters for one couple without reason...
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The cruelty of prisons in China
“A prisoner may, during the service of his sentence, correspond with others, but their correspondence shall be examined by the prison. If the prison discovers that the contents of a letter present a h...
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · 14d
Whatever happened to #GuiMinhai that day in Thailand? - Last photo while still free.

See the full compilation of video footage, maps, images from his home, photos of his kidnappers, and more.

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Gui Minhai's disappearance in China - in video
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · 17d
十年前的今天，瑞典书商 #桂民海 在泰国被中国特工绑架，此后，许多中国人权捍卫者在邻国遭到同样待遇。

值此之际，我们重新发布桂民海被绑架的详细调查，该调查参考了监控录像、图片、文件，以及一首诗。

还有一个简短的视频。

这是一个令人毛骨悚然的故事，也为其他面临风险的人们提供了许多警示信号。 safeguarddefenders.com/zh-hans/blog...
桂民海在泰国的最后几天
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · 17d
10 years ago today, Swedish bookseller #GuiMinhai was kidnapped by Chinese agents in Thailand.

On this occasion, we republish our blow-by-blow investigation into how Gui was taken, using surveillance camera footage, images, documents, and even a poem.

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Gui Minhai’s last days in Thailand
[Updated Oct 17, 2025] Some 10 years  - or 3650 days - ago, Swedish publisher Gui Minhai was kidnapped from Thailand by Chinese state agents. He’s now serving 10 years in prison on charges of “illegal...
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · 18d
Sweden sends its FM to China for meetings the very same day as the 10th anniversary of China's kidnapping of its citizens, #GuiMinhai, from Thailand. Economy and trade are listed as top priorities.

Can't make this up.

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10 years since Gui Minhai's kidnapping
October 15, 2025: Joint Statement from Civil Society Groups on the Chinese Government’s Arbitrary Detention of Swedish publisher Gui MinhaiWe, the undersigned press freedom, journalists’, human rights...
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · 19d
On Friday, it's 10 years since Swedish bookseller #GuiMinhai was kidnapped by Chinese agents in Thailand. They have faced no consequence.

SD, nearly 100 other NGOs, and the EU parliament all refuse to forget. Coordinated by @rsf.org

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10 years since Gui Minhai's kidnapping
October 15, 2025: Joint Statement from Civil Society Groups on the Chinese Government’s Arbitrary Detention of Swedish publisher Gui MinhaiWe, the undersigned press freedom, journalists’, human rights...
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · 21d
Chinese women's rights activist Li Qiaochu
writes on her blog how prison has unfairly blocked her from writing to her partner and fellow activist Xu Zhiyong. It is the sole line of contact she has with Xu and she is desperate to restore that channel.
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一封信的等待
2025年7月8日，我给许志永写了一封信，于7月9日寄出。7月28日，山东省鲁南监狱通过第三方口头转述要求我删…
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · Oct 2
几年前，我们撰写了一份关于中国精神病收治做法的最深入报告——警方常将异议人士强行送入精神病院关押，在那里他们被灌药、铁链捆绑、殴打以及电击“治疗”。
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · Oct 2
你父亲已去世三年，而你也失踪快五年了。时至今日，我们仍无法相信你已离世。致 #中国 泼墨女孩董瑶琼的
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · Oct 2
A few years earlier, we wrote the most indepth report on China's practice of psychiatric detentions - where police place critics under involuntary commitment where they are tortured with drugs, shackles, beatings and electroshock 'therapy'.
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · Oct 2
It’s been three years since your father’s death. And almost five years since you disappeared.

To this day, we cannot believe that you are dead.

Letter to Dong Yaoqiong, #China's ink girl: ✍️

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New event!
📆6th Oct
🕒3pm Malaysia Time

Join @altsean.bsky.social Manushya Foundation & more for panel & sharing space "Transnational Repression & Regional Justice"

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ASEAN PEOPLE'S FORUM Convergence Space: TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION & REGIONAL JUSTICE 6TH OCTOBER 2025 3:00 PM (KUALALUMPUR/MYT) Online Join us for a panel on transnational repression, open sharing and regional inputs for the APF Final Statement! Speakers EMILIE PALAMY PRADICHIT Legal Perspective (Founder & Executive Director, Manushya Foundation) DR. JEAN LINIS-DINCO Digital Security Perspective (Digital Rights Advisor, Manushya Foundation) MAUNG MYAT Lived Experience (Human Rights Defender, Malaysia)
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · Sep 30
After the recent #Singapore drama, worth noting which countries still maintain extradition treaties with #HongKong, and which have #MLATs with them.

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Hong Kong Police challenges West to abandon MLATs and Extradition Treaties
Hong Kong authorities name four foreign citizens as "co-conspirators" in fabricated charges against Jimmy Lai. These latest escalatory moves against pro-democracy activists and human rights defenders ...
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · Sep 23
Three years to the day since her father died in prison under suspicious circumstances, we write a letter to Dong Yaoqiong, China's ink girl...🖊️

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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · Sep 23
今天正值她父亲在狱中因可疑原因离世三周年，我们写下这封信，献给“泼墨女孩”董瑶琼... 🖊️

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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · Sep 23
2018年盛夏，一名年轻女子在 #上海 向 #习近平 的画像泼墨，由此引发了一系列的悲剧性事件，如今至少已造成两人死亡，另一人下落不明，并很可能已经去世。

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给董瑶琼的一封信：致消失的‘泼墨女孩’
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