A total of 402 Taiwanese detained in China since 2024, with 216 or more in pre-trial detention. What they can expect inside China's detention centers is the topic of SD's recent #BehindBars# report, providing unique insight into life in detention.
China issues a striking new regulation on its use of #ExitBans#, the third one this year alone. As SD recently exposed, its use has seemingly ballooned post-COVID. Key takeaways here.
"The Chinese embassy in Canberra called the Safeguard Defenders report "pure fabrication", but declined to respond to the ABC's detailed questions."
#BehindBars#, SD's new report on prison conditions, now out. Find it on our website.
Today is #MandelaDay#, a date that honors Nelson Mandela’s life’s work fighting for social justice. To mark the day, we are releasing our new report #BehindBars#. Through talking to former inmates, it exposes the abuse in #China’s# massive prison system.
Joint Statement: 59 press freedom, journalists’, human rights, and international organizations urgently call on Thai Government to refrain from forcibly returning investigative journalist Bai Zhaodong to China.
Estimates put the no. of people serving time in #China# at around 2.34 million, likely making it the country with the largest number of prisoners in the world. We surveyed dozens of former inmates. Here’s what they said about the abuses they suffered.
"Supporters and relatives now fear that Mr. Wu could be deported to China, where he would likely face persecution from the Chinese Communist Party."
Such persecution is not "likely"--it's a certainty.
It is with great sadness that we heard about Lam Wing-kee’s passing last night. He was a truly brave man who spoke truth to power, telling the world about #China’s# kidnapping of Hongkongers, secret RSDL jails and forced TV confessions.
It's good that the world's media still pays attention to rights abuses in #China#. Here's one of Sweden's top broadsheets' @dagensnyheter coverage of our latest report on detention centres.
A big thank you to all those who attended our Lisbon event last week, which coincided with the release of our new #BehindBars# report, as well as for those at the prior closed-door roundtable.
Find the report on our website at