#RSDL
A new study shows use of China's feared #RSDL system has reached six figures, with no sign of it going away - and that is just based on the limited data that is available. The true story likely far worse.

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September 8, 2026 at 3:14 PM
This Australian media report on the Chinese Australian journalist held in Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location, or RSDL in Beijing: "It drives you to want to die," Lei says. Minnie Chan has not been seen or heard from in approximately 1,035 days.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
Three years in a Chinese jail changed Cheng Lei. So has freedom
Finally free after 1,154 days in a Chinese prison, wrongfully accused of spilling state secrets, Australian journalist Cheng Lei was overjoyed to see her children again. But back home freedom brought ...
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September 8, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Part 2 of @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social investigation into China’s RSDL system examines its scale, and why public court data shows only the visible tip. People can be held in secret locations without meaningful legal recourse.

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Systematic terror - China’s use of RSDL in recent years
This is the second of a three-part series on RSDL. The first part, China reforms its secret RSDL jails, but will anything change?, focused on the major reforms announced of the RSDL system mid-2025, a...
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September 8, 2026 at 12:57 AM
More reporting from Safeguard Defenders on the Chinese party-state's use of extra-judicial detention

"China’s RSDL system of secret jails, where people are kept in solitary confinement, incommunicado, at secret locations, with no functioning right to appeal, freedom to move, or, often, seeing […]
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mstdn.social
September 8, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Or they put peope in RSDL secret jail -- where so many Chinese and other people are now languishing: safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/syst...
Systematic terror - China’s use of RSDL in recent years
This is the second of a three-part series on RSDL. The first part, China reforms its secret RSDL jails, but will anything change?, focused on the major reforms announced of the RSDL system mid-2025, a...
safeguarddefenders.com
September 7, 2026 at 6:41 PM
"China’s RSDL system of secret jails, where people are kept in solitary confinement, incommunicado, at secret locations, with no functioning right to appeal, freedom to move, or, often, seeing daylight, continues to run amok."
Systematic terror - China’s use of RSDL in recent years
This is the second of a three-part series on RSDL. The first part, China reforms its secret RSDL jails, but will anything change?, focused on the major reforms announced of the RSDL system mid-2025, a...
safeguarddefenders.com
September 7, 2026 at 6:22 PM
“[…]sit still in silence for 14 hours. […] two guards are positioned 30 centimetres from your face, staring.

[…] permission to go to the toilet or walk a few metres […]. You can't close your eyes until bedtime. […]

This torture, which China calls […] RSDL […] Lei endured for the first six months.”
September 5, 2026 at 7:44 PM
被誉为“中国良心”的 #高智晟 律师失踪已超过9年,联合国人权专家表示,#中国 政府始终拒绝就其 #强迫失踪 问题进行对话,这是完全不可接受的。

在 #强迫失踪受害者国际日,我们重申联合国专家的呼吁,反对继续对那些在中国捍卫权利的人实施 #指定居所监视居住 #RSDL 和 #强迫失踪。

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联合国特别报告员:中国必须维护被监禁人权维护者的人权
日内瓦 - 联合国专家今日表示,中国必须维护被监禁人权维护者的人权,包括确保其不受酷刑或虐待。人权维护者处境特别报告员玛丽·劳勒(Mary Lawlor)表示:“我对接连收到关于中国境内被监禁人权维护者所受待遇的指控感到不安,其中涉及与酷刑、剥夺获得适当医疗服务及探视等权利有关的侵犯行为。”专家呼吁中国政府确保这些被拘留者能够获得家属探视、法律援助以及适当的医疗服务,同时将其关押在官方认可的拘留场...
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August 28, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Read our new report 'Mapping Deprivation of Liberty in #China' - Eleven years after the #709Crackdown, lawyers still face harassment and arbitrary detention including in 'residential surveillance at a designated location' (RSDL). www.rights-practice.org/report-beyon...
Report: Beyond Prison. Mapping Deprivation of Liberty in China
In June 2026, The Rights Practice published a new report "Beyond Prison. Mapping Deprivation of Liberty in China". The report maps the multiple ways in which the Chinese state may deprive someone of t...
www.rights-practice.org
July 9, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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.
hongkongfp.com/2026/07/03/h...
Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee, once held in China, dies in Taiwan
Lam Wing-kee, a Hong Kong bookseller who fled to Taiwan in 2019 after being detained by China in 2015 for selling content deemed critical of Beijing, died Thursday at the age of 70.
hongkongfp.com
July 3, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Safeguard Defenders have discovered imagery of what conditions are like in China's black jails (RSDL and liu zhi). Companies marketing fit outs for jail cells are advertising their products on the social media platform Douyin […]
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mstdn.social
June 11, 2026 at 7:47 AM
“The worst period of her incarceration came at the start: six months under Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location, or RSDL.

Cheng said authorities focus from the outset on breaking prisoners to gain guilty pleas in an environment of isolation, constant surveillance, enforced silence…”
Cheng Lei is rebuilding her life after three years in a Beijing prison. She’s written a memoir and a play, tried her hand at stand-up comedy and is pursuing her career as a journalist highlighting the hard conditions of Chinese prisons and her story of resilience.
An Australian journalist turns her harrowing China prison ordeal into a memoir and play
Cheng Lei is rebuilding her life after three years in a Beijing prison. She has written a memoir and a play, tried stand-up comedy and is pursuing journalism.
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May 18, 2026 at 5:45 AM
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May 12, 2026 at 6:33 AM
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May 12, 2026 at 5:17 AM
That makes it easier!

The decontamination lotion used by the military (RSDL, a Canadian invention) is like olive oil in consistency. You’d leave training looking like you were wearing hair pomade 60’s style!
May 11, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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April 24, 2026 at 5:03 AM
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April 24, 2026 at 4:33 AM
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April 24, 2026 at 4:25 AM
中國備受爭議的「指定居所監視居住」(RSDL)制度再現重大變動,非政府組織「保護衛士」發表最新報告,指中國政府去年6月公布新規定後,一直未有公開相關全文,相關規定也未能遏止警察濫權問題。報告質疑這場改革,只是為「強迫失蹤」制度披上合法外衣,實質權力反而得到進一步鞏固。
April 10, 2026 at 3:06 AM
In 2025 China's Ministry of Public Security released provisions for the reform of Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL). This was in response to criticism of the system and deaths in custody. However, it is unclear to what extent the reforms […]

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April 9, 2026 at 10:05 AM
China reforms its secret RSDL jails, but will anything change? New regulation fall shorts, and likelihood of actual enforcement low.

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China reforms its secret RSDL jails, but will anything change?
This is the first of a three-part series on on Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL), the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) system of enforced disappearances. The second part,…
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April 8, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Just last week lawyer #XieYang was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Before this ordeal, he had to live through #RSDL, or China's secret jails. Here is his story, based on his lawyer's detailed account - "Your only right is to obey"
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5 years for tortured Chinese rights lawyer
Image This is Xie Yang,
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March 31, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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March 7, 2026 at 12:12 AM