China's secret Liuzhi detention used on more than 200,000 cases 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…

New official data shows #XiJinping'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 #Liuzhi up 24% to 47,000 cases last year.

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China's secret Liuzhi detention used on more than 200,000 cases 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…

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

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Liuzhi system expands in use amidst reforms 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,…

The political purge of China's absolute top military is gonna be all over the news for a few days. Major revisions this year of #CCDI and the #Liuzhi system of secret, extra-legal, detention. Read all about it here.

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CCDI data shows crackdown expanding Recent reporting in both domestic State/Party and international media has highlighted political purges in both the private sector as well as in the military, alongside the long ongoing campaign within...

Beyond high-profile military purges and crackdown on entrepreneurs, *brand new* data from China shows a clear expansion of #CCDI investigations, and likely record use of #Liuzhi 2025.

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Slew of Suicides rocks China’s Liuzhi System April 16. June 2. July 17. July 27.The dates mark the rapid succession of reported suicides by Chinese entrepreneurs.All four individuals are reported to have been in their early to mid-50’s, with suc...

Suicides of Chinese private entrepreneurs after stints in the #Liuzhi system, and the rise in private businesses targeted by the CCP-run system, were recently explored in two extensive SD articles. It is now in the news again, by the Economist.

Originals >

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Slew of Suicides rocks China’s Liuzhi System April 16. June 2. July 17. July 27.The dates mark the rapid succession of reported suicides by Chinese entrepreneurs.All four individuals are reported to have been in their early to mid-50’s, with suc...

This summer has seen a series of suicides by entrepreneurs after spending time inside #Liuzhi, (one of) China's system(s) for secret detentions.

In August, a string of entrepreneurs was taken into the system. What to expect next?

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Slew of Suicides rocks China’s Liuzhi System April 16. June 2. July 17. July 27.The dates mark the rapid succession of reported suicides by Chinese entrepreneurs.All four individuals are reported to have been in their early to mid-50’s, with suc...

April 16. June 2. July 17. July 27. - The dates mark the succession of reported suicides by Chinese entrepreneurs, all of whom were only recently released from China's system of secret detentions #Liuzhi.

In August, more entrepreneurs were taken away.

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Liuzhi system expands in use amidst reforms 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, foll...

Amidst rapidly expanding use (up 45+% y-on-y), new reforms now allow the #CCP to hold critics in secret detention - entirely outside the legal system - for 16 months, using its #Liuzhi system.

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Liu Jianchao - caught by his own investigators According to Reuters, the head of the Chinese Communist Party’s International Department, Liu Jianchao, was taken away for questioning at the beginning of August. So far, Chinese authorities have fail...

CCP heavyweight #LiuJianchao, now under investigation, isn't just your regular cadre. He has played a key role in the reformed #CCDI/NCS, #Liuzhi, and taken lead in its #FoxHunt #SkyNet operations.

A deep dive into Liu is now available >>>

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China's use of the Party’s own secret detention system #Liuzhi soars, new data proves. Use of Liuzhi up over 45% year-on-year.

A brief article with some takeaways.

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An outrage that even China’s supine media has called out Anger is growing over a form of detention linked to torture and deaths

#China's security apparatus is increasingly using #RSDL and #liuzhi, @economist.com reports. The #CCP often uses them for political purposes. Both are forms of arbitrary detention, torture and solitary confinement that cruelly violate human rights and should be abolished

China is building new detention centers all over the country as Xi Jinping widens corruption purge | CNN More than 200 specialized detention facilities have been built or expanded across China, a CNN investigation finds, as the Chinese leader extends his crackdown beyond the ruling Communist Party to a v...

Avant de changer d’année, à (re)lire cette enquête de CNN sur l’expansion du système extra judiciaire de « rétention en détention » ( #liuzhi) et la construction de plus de 200 centres dédiés en Chine, alors que s’accélère la purge anti corruption du président chinois.
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China is building new detention centers all over the country as Xi Jinping widens corruption purge | CNN More than 200 specialized detention facilities have been built or expanded across China, a CNN investigation finds, as the Chinese leader extends his crackdown beyond the ruling Communist Party to a v...

Read award-winning CNN’s investigative journalist Yong Xiong’s report on how China is building more detention centers all over its country in anti-corruption drive. cnn.it/4iNmLE5?cid=... #ChinaDetentionCamps, #YongXiong, #CNN, #investigativejournalism, #NSC, #liuzhi, #anticorruption, #Chinese

Some of them are probably already dead and the survivors are in the vast #CCP gulag prison network system never to see the light of day again. Do they deserve it? Some of them probably do while some are innocent. Xi regime has imprisoned 3.2M people so far that public knows of. #China #Liuzhi

The Disappearance of Bao Fan and China’s Liuzhi system - AFI In  March 2018, China’s National Supervision Law (NSL) introduced the Liuzhi detention system, which is a de facto system of enforced and involuntary disappearances. According to safeguard Defenders, ...

#Liuzhi system is a system of "enforced disappearances" implemented by Xi. There are no public paperwork, no trial, no lawyers, no contact with family. The victims are basically kidnapped and hauled off and their status is unknown for years. #China
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China’s Disappearing Officials: Common “Party Discipline” Practice Ever wonder where all those high officials in China keep disappearing to?Here’s the answer… and the increasingly frequent headlines on yet another Party boss gone missing don’t even begin to cut it.

SD's latest data, taken from CCP party organ #CCDI shows the true scope of China's feared #Liuzhi system for the disappearances of Party members, State functionaries, and SOE managers.

23,000 people arbitrarily detained in 2023.

UN submission filed.

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Noget er forandret i Kina. Nu forsvinder der to eller tre fra den kinesiske elite hver måned. #RSDL #Liuzhi

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SD's #PeterDahlin discusses China's use of disappearance via #RSDL and #Liuzhi in a 30 min deep-dive with Germany's
@SteffenWurzel #ARD. (In German only). See SD's various reports on RSDL for more details, including #LockedUp, our graphics report.

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China has gross human rights abuses, from enforced disappearance to torture, hiding behind the veneer of the rule of law. Disturbing.

#liuzhi is crazy messed up