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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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.
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China is overseeing nearly 1,250 overseas policing outposts in more than 90 countries to crack down on dissidents, according to a report by a human rights advocacy organization.
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China’s diaspora crackdown reaches deep into Europe, @SafeguardDefend report finds.
The report alleging Beijing uses hundreds of European outposts to monitor and police diaspora communities lands as EU trade officials meet a Chinese counterpart.
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法国足球名将基利安・姆巴佩上个月有关毛泽东的言论令他失去了利润丰厚的赞助合约；但如果他是中国公民，这番言论可能会让他失去人身自由。 safeguarddefenders.com/zh-ha…
French football star Kylian #Mbappe Mao Zedong comments last month cost him lucrative contracts, but if he was a #Chinese citizen, it could have cost him his freedom.
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Must-read by @NetAskari - the online half of how the UFWD is engaged in “strengthening coordinated supervision of the two battlefields, home and abroad, and the two fronts, online and offline” as noted in @SafeguardDefend A Formula for Repression. 👇👇👇
China's shadowy "United Front Work Department" uses an AI powered Big-Data Center at Jinan University to help with expansion of its global influence operations, internal documents reveal. A 160 sqm installation, including six departments use mass OSINT collection and analysis to expand the Communist Party's reach around the world. 🧵 1/6
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A recent report by Safeguard Defenders said China has expanded illegal police stations it operates around the world. The Spain-based non-governmental organization said the stations are used by China to monitor the diaspora in a bid to control them.
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🇨🇳 El gobierno chino vigila, controla y espía a sus ciudadanos en México a través de estaciones policiales clandestinas instaladas en el país, detectó la organización no gubernamental @SafeguardDefend.
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Desde finales de 2024, cinco nuevas políticas nacionales instruyen a las autoridades de toda China para que amplíen sus actividades de enlace en el extranjero. El objetivo fundamental es exportar el sistema interno para controlar a la diáspora. 24-horas.mx/mundo/china-tien…
The latest @thewirechina podcast is out, with SD's Peter Dahlin and @MichaelKovrig joining, to discuss #RSDL, foreigners as targets, and the new #ThePeoplesRepublicoftheDisappeared book (available on Amazon worldwide).
pod.link/1873741567
For Michael's recent piece in the Wire China, "Torture Tales from China's Black Jails", see: thewirechina.com/2026/10/25/…
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🎧️ New Episode: In China’s black jails, detainees are pressured to confess to crimes they don’t know they committed while being prevented from knowing where they’re being imprisoned or even from seeing daylight.
Peter Dahlin (@SafeguardDefend) and @MichaelKovrig (Kovrig Group, Centre for Strategic Statecraft) on China's practice of what's known as RSDL: buff.ly/6I72jot
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We welcome @ipacglobal's alert on China's growing foreign interference & transnational repression, urging democracies to expand official engagement with #Taiwan🇹🇼. We'll continue working with like-minded partners to defend sovereignty & freedom from fear.
#BREAKING
In response to new @SafeguardDefend report launched at #IPACTheHague26, 54 lawmakers from 26 countries call for 6 urgent measures to combat CCP foreign interference and transnational repression.
They demand an end to wilful blindness and overly tolerant acquiescence.
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Die Kommunistische Partei Chinas baut ihren globalen Einfluss aus.
Peking nutzt für seine Überwachung und Repression im Ausland Hunderte von Organisationen, die es vereinnahmt hat.
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China claimed it shut down its illegal overseas police stations. But did the network ever really disappear?
At the 2026 IPAC Summit in The Hague, Safeguard Defenders unveiled a major new investigation exposing Beijing’s expanding global surveillance and control networks.
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Thank you @MOFA_Taiwan "外交部歡迎與肯定IPAC等理念相近夥伴，包括「保護衛士基金會」，以具體行動共同關切中國威權擴張主義，以及呼籲民主友盟應加強與台灣攜手合作反制中國跨國鎮壓。[...] 並重申民主國家唯有團結合作，才能有效遏止威權暴力，守護人民免於恐懼的自由。"
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Chinese lokale overheden runnen een fijnmazig surveillancenetwerk in zeker negentig landen.
Via een netwerk van verenigingen en informanten worden Chinezen wereldwijd in de gaten gehouden.
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CCP uses united front channels, such as hometown associations and chambers of commerce, to extend control over Chinese communities abroad. “The only thing that changed post 2022 is they stopped being so dumb as to put actual police signs on walls abroad.”
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Beijing’s overseas police stations were part of something much bigger. A new @SafeguardDefend's report maps the PRC’s system for monitoring and controlling Chinese diaspora communities, including in Canada. 🧵1/9 🔗👇🏻
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針對 @SafeguardDefend 在 #IPACTheHague26 發布的最新報告，來自26個國家的54位立法者呼籲採取6項緊急措施，打擊中共的境外干預與跨國鎮壓。
他們一致要求，各國不能再對中國的行為此視而不見、一味姑息退讓。
