Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士)
@SafeguardDefend
Safeguard Defenders promotes rule of law and help 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. Also @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social
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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.
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#Thailand#: UN experts today expressed grave concern at the continued detention of Chinese journalist & human rights defender Bai Zhaodong & the risk of his forcible return to China.
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UN experts express grave concern over the continued detention of journalist and human rights defender Bai Zhaodong in Thailand and the risk of his forcible return to China, due to the persecution and repression he suffered at the hands of PRC authorities.
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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.
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"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.
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Art for Free #BaiZhaoDong#
Journalist Bai Zhaodong at imminent risk of forced return to China: More than 50 NGOs, including RSF, urge Thailand not to bow to Beijing's pressure.
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.
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SPJ joins a coalition of more than 50 organizations, led by @RSF_inter and @SafeguardDefend, in calling on Thai authorities to refrain from forcibly returning detained Chinese journalist Bai Zhaodong to China.
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#Thailand#: We join @RSF_inter and other organisations calling on the authorities to refrain from forcibly returning detained
Chinese journalist Bai Zhaodong to China. If returned, Bai faces grave risk of persecution ⬇️
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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.
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🇨🇳#China#
I am receiving disturbing news about the imminent deportation of Chinese HRD, journalist and whistleblower Bai Zhaodong, from Thailand to China. He fled China in November 2023 having been persecuted and criminalized for exposing large scale corruption and financial fraud implicating officials. He remains detained in Bangkok, reportedly in poor health and without adequate medical care. Despite an ongoing resettlement process, his relocation to a safe third country has twice been obstructed. I urge the Thai authorities to immediately halt any deportation proceedings, facilitate his prompt relocation, and ensure his safety and access to adequate healthcare.
@ChinaMissionGva
@UN_SPExperts
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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.
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"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.
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China is once again bullying our ally to do its bidding. Thailand should not deport Bai Zhaodong, a journalist targeted by the Chinese government. Instead, it should do the right thing and resettle Bai and others in safe third countries. Anything less is unacceptable.
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Rights groups urge Thailand not to deport Chinese journalist to China
Our new report out today #BehindBars# reveals routine & systematic abuses in #China’s# sprawling prison system for both Chinese and foreign prisoners. We surveyed 59 former inmates across 16 different municipalities and provinces.
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In 2018 we released a report - Scripted and Staged -- that exposed how China conducted forced televised confessions on political targets. Is this now happening in Hong Kong? From the BBC...
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In 2018 we released a report - Scripted and Staged -- that exposed how China conducted forced televised confessions on political targets. Is this now happening in Hong Kong? From the BBC...
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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.
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This is incredibly sad. No one has been held accountable for the ordeal Lam Wing-kee has endured. But someday they will be, and someday justice will come for the CCP machinery of repression.
