China continues arbitrarily detention under RSDL
24 Jun 2021, 06:18 GMT+10
Beijing [China], June 24 (ANI): Almost eight years after Chinese President Xi Jinping introduced the draconian system - Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL) - Beijing continues to step up its efforts to arbitrarily detain, coerce confessions from, torture, threaten and mistreat people without any accountability.
The RSDL is a custodial system introduced in 2013 that gave police the powers to disappear anyone into a secret facility, deny them all contact with the outside world, including legal counsel and family, and interrogate them at will, for a total of up to six months, according to a report from a non-profit, Safeguard Defenders.