China’s missing verdicts - The demise of CJO and China’s judicial transparency outlines how judicial transparency is deteriorating in China.

 

This brief report outlines developments in China's criminal justice system during the pandemic and compares 2020/2021 with the preceding years.

China's institutionalization of two systems for secret and extra-legal detentions, RSDL and Liuzhi, sees continued growth, hollowing our regulated detention and criminal procedure.

Hide and Seek is the most comprehensive manual ever assembled on the issue of extraditions to China. A key tool for legal practitioners and those seeking detailed analysis of almost every issue relating to extraditions to China.

Returned Without Rights: State of Extraditions to China is a report that outlines how extraditions undermine the rule of law and international legal obligations in target countries, and the role they play in China's long-arm policing. 

Involuntary Returns: China’s covert operation to force ‘fugitives’ overseas back home (2022). This report blows the lid off China's far-ranging long-arm policing operation Sky Net, the 10,000 targets so far returned, and the legal basis allowing for kidnapping abroad. 

Pursued For Life: Hong Kong’s global hunt for fugitives, the National Security Law, and risk of INTERPOL misuse (2022) is an investigation into threats by HKPF and HK government to use INTERPOL and other channels to capture exiled ex-lawmakers and protesters using the National Security Law as the basis.

Access Denied: China's Legal Blockage (2021) examines the multitude of ways the authorities are increasingly using to deny suspects access to independent legal counsel by targeting the victim, their families and their lawyers. The report includes in-depth interviews with lawyers and family members of victims and documents the dozens of lawyers persecuted for taking on cases and countless examples where suspects were denied their own choice of legal representation.

Strategies of Silence: Repression of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Lawyers, and Journalists (2021) is a joint mid-term assessment of the 2018 Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of China, by Safeguard Defenders, International Service for Human Rights, Reporters Without Borders, Frontline Defenders, and The 29 Principles.
 

China's Hunt for Taiwanese Overseas: The PRC's use of extradition and deportation to undermine Taiwanese sovereignty (2021) maps how, and where, the PRC is pursuing Taiwanese citizens to have them repatriated to the PRC rather than Taiwan from 2016 to 2019. 

No Room To Run: China’s expanded mis(use) of INTERPOL since the rise of Xi Jinping (2021) in an investigation into the expansion of INTERPOL, China's use of it - past and present, and the failure of INTERPOL to protect against misuse of Red Notices and Diffusions. 

The submission provides evidence on the scale of use of the NSC's liuzhi system for arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances, and issues concerning UN agency UNODC entering into cooperation with the NSC, and refusal to release the content of the agreement.