Safeguard Defenders

11/03/2026

Data just out on China's judiciary 2025. An obvious point is that only 294 trials led to not guilty verdicts, the lowest on record, and a conviction rate of 99.9778%. Find a number of takeaways in this post, which includes historical data as comparison.

On Monday, China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) and Supreme People’s Court (SPC) delivered their annual work reports to the National People’s Congress. The SPC disclosed that only 294 not‑guilty verdicts were issued out of more than one million criminal judgments — the lowest fig...

08/03/2026

#突发新闻 : 跨国镇压：意大利以国家安全为由驱逐八名中国公民，此前他们被指在多年间对中国知名异议人士、网络意见领袖“李老师”实施持续监控、骚扰与威胁。

上周，意大利当局以国家安全为由，正式将八名中国公民驱逐出申根地区。据新闻报道，其中三人已被立即遣返，另外四人此前已自行离境。还有一人因正在申请庇护而被拘留。该决定是在历经多年调查后作出的，调查对象是针...

08/03/2026

: "Transnational Repression: Italy expels eight Chinese nationals on national security grounds" following years of relentless surveillance, harassment and threats against prominent Chinese dissident and influencer Teacher Li.

上周，意大利当局以国家安全为由，正式将八名中国公民驱逐出申根地区。据新闻报道，其中三人已被立即遣返，另外四人此前已自行离境。还有一人因正在申请庇护而被拘留。该决定是在历经多年调查后作出的，调查对象是针...

04/03/2026

New official data shows 's "anti-corruption" campaign expanding, with a million cases investigated 2025, over 983,000 people punished, and most alarmingly, the use of the secret extra-legal detention system up 24% to 47,000 cases last year.

This weekend, on Saturday, February 28, the Party’s feared internal police organ, the CCDI (Central Commission for Discipline Inspection) made its annual work report public. Like its previous reports covering 2023 and 2024, it includes data on the acknowledged number of cases in which the Liuzhi s...

03/03/2026

China's secret detention used on more than 200,000 cases, new data from the shows. Use of Liuzhi system 2025 reaches 47,000, a 24% increase year on year.

This weekend, on Saturday, February 28, the Party’s feared internal police organ, the CCDI (Central Commission for Discipline Inspection) made its annual work report public. Like its previous reports covering 2023 and 2024, it includes data on the acknowledged number of cases in which the Liuzhi s...

28/02/2026

HRW has published information about a Uyghur in France targeted by China to become a diaspora spy. These cases rarely see light, and even rarer goes to court, but we have mapped in detail just one such case in Sweden. See how it actually works, and how MSS pursue them.

It was just before lunch on a Monday in February 2017, when Tibetan refugee Dorjee Gyantsan stepped off a ferry from Poland in Nynäshamn, Sweden. The then 49-year-old began the short walk from the port terminal to the nearby station to take the one-hour train to Stockholm. But Dorjee never made it ...

28/02/2026

You probably heard about China's disinformation and online harassment campaigns using ChatGPT, as revealed in a new report from OpenAI. Interesting to see their ongoing campaign against both SD and some of its individual staff continues, now with the help of AI.

You can also learn more by looking into our own deep dive into this earlier, on our website, under "Disinformation and harassment operations target Safeguard Defenders".

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/df438d70-e3fe-4a6c-a403-ff632def8f79/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai.pdf

28/02/2026

Too tired to read, but still want to know? Learn about China's use of of dissidents in our inaugural podcast, based on our satirical 'travel' magazine - Dissident edition.

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10/02/2026

Our satirical magazine - showcasing China's use of forced "holidays" on dissidents - is making its way across the world. Find it in 48 cities across 5 continents (!), and its growing. With Spring festival, many more will be put through this practice.

https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/holidays-handcuffs-new-report-examines-forced-travel-china

26/01/2026

昨天正好是保护卫士负责人彼得·达林从 #指定居所监视居住 中获释、在武装押送和一系列精心安排的“表演”下被驱逐出境，并被禁止入境满 10 周年的日子。为纪念这一时刻，特此分享一篇关于较少被讨论的“驱逐出境”过程的短篇故事。

他在中国拍摄的最后一张照片：起飞前，两名国安官员在廊桥上站岗守卫。

以下为保护卫士负责人彼得·达林撰写的个人评论文章。就在昨天，整整十年前，我被中国遣返，并依据《反间谍法》被禁止入境，这标志着我在中国秘密监狱指定居所监视居住（简称指居）中的那段地狱般经历的结束。中国的....

26/01/2026

Yesterday it was 10 years ago exactly since SD's Peter Dahlin was released from , deported under armed guard and much choreography, and banned for 10 years. To reflect on this anniversary, a short story on the less talked about issue of deportation is being shared.

Added here, his last photo ever taken in China, with two Ministry of State Security officers standing guard on the jet bridge before take off.

This is a personal OpEd written by Safeguard Defenders' Peter Dahlin.

25/01/2026

The political purge of China's absolute top military commanders is gonna be all over the news for a few days. Let's hope the media does a better job explaining and the system of secret, extra-legal, detention these days. Major revisions this year, read all about it here.

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, following revisions to law in June.Data from the Chinese Communist Party’s internal discipline watchdo...