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
Our 2025 handbook "Missing in China" is used by lawyers and diplomatic missions in Beijing to help families and friends of people detained in China. If you're thinking of going to the PRC, read this first.
Not wanting to discourage his social media followers, @whyyoutouzhele had been reluctant to share the full extent of the PRC’s transnational repression against him.
Until now.
Due to the incessant attacks on his parents, he now tells the full story👇
🚨Moroccan Court of Cassation just ruled in favor of #IdrisHasan’s extradition to China. Together with @MENA_Rights we filed an urgent appeal to UN Committee Against Torture requesting interim measures to stay execution of decision.
Please raise your voices to #SaveIdrisHasan!
Based on our extensive research into #ForcedConfessions in mainland China, we believe #HK Democracy Movement needs to brace for the worst as all signs point to impending use of this tool of political terror in further all-out assault on HK’s legal system.
#BREAKING China operating over 100 police stations in 53 countries across the world with help of some host nations.
@NdosSantosCNN @CNN in exclusive preview of our new investigation “Patrol & Persuade” - follow-up to #110Overseas - out tmrw Dec. 5! 🧵👇
BREAKING: Our new report "Drugged and Detained: China’s Psychiatric Prisons" is out. It provides evidence that #China is routinely locking up activists and petitioners in mental hospitals, one of the most chilling ways that China silences critics.
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🔴European Court of Human Rights says NO EXTRADITION TO CHINA: would constitute violation of Article 3 ECHR - prohibition of torture and other forms of ill-treatment.
Groundbreaking sentence sets binding erga omnes precedent for all 46 CoE Member States!
After an open letter from victims of China's @CGTNOfficial use of forced TV confessions - essentially tools of political terror - Norway takes CGTN off the air.
Sweden took both CGTN and CCTV-4 off the air previously after complaints in local media.
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Dear Twitter, there are perhaps as many 1000 new fake accounts using our name in the last 12 hours. We can't possibly report them all.
Perhaps you could take action? @twitter @TwitterNotify - all of them using our exact name in title "Safeguard defenders (保護衛士)"