United Nations Human Rights Procedures have repeatedly condemned the practice of incommunicado detention in RSDL as “tantamount to enforced and involuntary disappearances” and “arbitrary detentions”, calling upon the Chinese authorities to halt the practice “as a matter of urgency”. The pandemic era as sent he continued high level use of the system, which is likely to expand further. While the system in its current for was established as Xi came to power, its use has expanded during his second mandate period, with local police started using the system, unlike in earlier instances, and with it being used increasingly on non-national security crimes.
Well-known former inmates include the two Canadian hostages Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, now-exiled artist Ai Weiwei, human rights lawyers Wang Yu and Wang Quanzhang. Taking place before any trial, torture within the system aimed at obtaining forced confessions is rife. Neither the victim nor their family members are informed of their whereabouts.
Under Xi’s reign, the use of enforced disappearances through one of the PRC’s many dedicated systems has grown at a stellar pace. “Legalized” under Chinese law in 2013, Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL) - the first system for enforced disappearances - has become a regime favorite to crack down on human rights defenders, those suspected of “national security crimes” and foreigners: the system outlined in our graphic report Locked Up allows the security apparatus to disappear individuals for up to six months without access to a lawyer (or consular assistance in the case of foreigners). Expanded use of Enforced Disappearances and Torture In view of the 20th Communist Party of China Congress and Xi Jinping’s most likely confirmation as its Secretary General, a brief overview of our recent reports and insights into three main correlated trends in growing gross human rights abuses during his past two mandates at the helm of the People’s Republic of China should provide useful insight into what more to expect under his third term: the widespread and systematic use of enforced disappearances and torture, a flawed criminal justice system being hollowed out, and the rapidly expanding illegal transnational policing operations around the globe.ġ.
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