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India.com
10-07-2025
- Politics
- India.com
Inside Xi's Black Box: Torture, Disappearances And Invisible Machinery That Keeps China's Rulers Untouchable
Beijing/New Delhi: Behind the thick walls of official buildings in Beijing (China), there are no ordinary courtrooms. No independent judges. No public defenders. There are only silence, confessions squeezed from shadows and men who vanish without a trace. This is the political machinery President Xi Jinping has built. This is seemingly designed not to serve justice, but to erase dissent. High-ranking intelligence sources have lifted the curtain on a structure of repression that operates in full view of the world, but it is beyond the reach of any law. Under Xi, the boundaries that once separated the Communist Party from the state and the military have collapsed. In their place stands a single command – loyalty to the party, above all else. 'Law has become a weapon, not a protection. The courts, the police and even the army now exist to protect the party's dominance, not the people,' said one intelligence operative. This system does not rely on public trials or visible prisons. It has darker tools – ones the public never sees. Detainees are taken to secret locations under terms such as 'Shuanggui' or 'Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location'. The nomenclatures may sound bureaucratic but mean months in a locked room, lights on 24/7, no lawyer, no phone call and no trial. Inside, silence is broken by screams. Confessions are signed with broken fingers. Some are televised. Most are buried. Xi's 'anti-corruption' campaigns have turned these black sites into factories of obedience. Ostensibly aimed at rooting out graft, they have instead become a purge machine. Over 100 of the nation's top officials, including military brass, business tycoons and even Xi's own appointees, have either been jailed or disappeared. 'Seventy-plus generals from the PLA, Rocket Force and Air Force have vanished under vague charges. This is not discipline. This is political cleansing,' revealed the senior intelligence official. And it does not stop at the military. The same formula is used on lawyers and activists. The 2015 '709 Crackdown' was a warning. Over 300 legal professionals were rounded up and many tortured. That year, the courts stopped being a branch of government and became a wing of the party. 'Judges are now expected to follow ideological directives. Independence is dead,' the official said. Even China's billionaires, who are the face of its economic miracle, are not safe. Jack Ma vanished for weeks after criticising regulators. Xiao Jianhua was snatched from a Hong Kong hotel and reappeared in a prison uniform. Bao Fan and Hui Ka Yan joined the list of missing moguls. 'The message is clear. You can build wealth, but never build influence,' he said. Loyalty has become a requirement in every boardroom. ByteDance, Alibaba or Tencent – each has government operatives embedded inside. It does not matter if they are publicly traded or backed by international investors. They answer to the party first. Outside China, the reach of this system grows longer. Exiles are tracked. Critics are hacked. Interpol Red Notices are quietly weaponised. Gui Minhai disappeared in Thailand. Lee Bo was snatched from Hong Kong. Others receive anonymous threats or suffer mysterious break-ins in foreign capitals. 'There is no border anymore. The party considers no one out of reach,' said a source close to international law enforcement. The intelligence dossier is stark in its conclusion. Xi Jinping's CCP functions like a political cartel. Detentions, surveillance and torture. These are not mistakes or excesses. They are the design. One line in the report chills more than any other – 'Dissent is treated as treason. And treason is punished in silence.'
Canada Standard
27-06-2025
- Politics
- Canada Standard
Global Human Rights Groups call out China at UN for ongoing persecution of lawyers
Geneva [Switzerland], June 27 (ANI): A coalition of global human rights organisations has expressed grave concerns during the 59th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council regarding the ongoing persecution of human rights attorneys in China, commemorating the tenth anniversary of China's '709 Crackdown.' As reported in a press release by the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), the oral statement was presented by Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) and supported by Amnesty International, the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute, Lawyers for Lawyers, and the Law Society of England and Wales. The crackdown started on July 9, 2015, when more than 300 lawyers and legal advocates were targeted by police in China, marking the largest organised suppression of legal professionals in the nation's recent history. The WUC release notes that the statement highlighted that human rights lawyers in China continue to endure harassment, disbarment, imprisonment, and incessant surveillance. The organisations pointed out several specific cases, including lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who has been forcibly disappeared since 2017, and Ding Jiaxi, who received a 12-year prison sentence in 2023 merely for attending a private meeting with fellow lawyers. The statement also indicated that the families of detained lawyers frequently face hardships as well, losing their jobs, homes, and access to education, while enduring travel restrictions and constant monitoring. As mentioned in the WUC release, the NGOs voiced their concern over the escalating repression of other human rights defenders, including Tibetans, Uyghurs, and residents of Hong Kong. The organisations also condemned China's increasing use of transnational repression to silence dissent beyond its borders. The coalition urged the global community to take substantial actions to hold China accountable for its violations. 'Torture is universally condemned under international law,' the organisations stated, urging the UN Special Rapporteur and member states to implement stronger measures against these abuses. The statement also received backing from 16 other NGOs, including the Uyghur Human Rights Project, CIVICUS, China Aid, Safeguard Defenders, and the Taipei Bar Association Human Rights Committee. (ANI)
Canada News.Net
27-06-2025
- Politics
- Canada News.Net
Global Human Rights Groups call out China at UN for ongoing persecution of lawyers
Geneva [Switzerland], June 27 (ANI): A coalition of global human rights organisations has expressed grave concerns during the 59th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council regarding the ongoing persecution of human rights attorneys in China, commemorating the tenth anniversary of China's '709 Crackdown.' As reported in a press release by the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), the oral statement was presented by Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) and supported by Amnesty International, the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute, Lawyers for Lawyers, and the Law Society of England and Wales. The crackdown started on July 9, 2015, when more than 300 lawyers and legal advocates were targeted by police in China, marking the largest organised suppression of legal professionals in the nation's recent history. The WUC release notes that the statement highlighted that human rights lawyers in China continue to endure harassment, disbarment, imprisonment, and incessant surveillance. The organisations pointed out several specific cases, including lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who has been forcibly disappeared since 2017, and Ding Jiaxi, who received a 12-year prison sentence in 2023 merely for attending a private meeting with fellow lawyers. The statement also indicated that the families of detained lawyers frequently face hardships as well, losing their jobs, homes, and access to education, while enduring travel restrictions and constant monitoring. As mentioned in the WUC release, the NGOs voiced their concern over the escalating repression of other human rights defenders, including Tibetans, Uyghurs, and residents of Hong Kong. The organisations also condemned China's increasing use of transnational repression to silence dissent beyond its borders. The coalition urged the global community to take substantial actions to hold China accountable for its violations. 'Torture is universally condemned under international law,' the organisations stated, urging the UN Special Rapporteur and member states to implement stronger measures against these abuses. The statement also received backing from 16 other NGOs, including the Uyghur Human Rights Project, CIVICUS, China Aid, Safeguard Defenders, and the Taipei Bar Association Human Rights Committee. (ANI)
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Business Standard
27-06-2025
- Politics
- Business Standard
Global Human Rights Groups slam China's ongoing crackdown on lawyers at UN
A coalition of global human rights organisations has expressed grave concerns during the 59th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council regarding the ongoing persecution of human rights attorneys in China, commemorating the tenth anniversary of China's "709 Crackdown." As reported in a press release by the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), the oral statement was presented by Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) and supported by Amnesty International, the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute, Lawyers for Lawyers, and the Law Society of England and Wales. The crackdown started on July 9, 2015, when more than 300 lawyers and legal advocates were targeted by police in China, marking the largest organised suppression of legal professionals in the nation's recent history. The WUC release notes that the statement highlighted that human rights lawyers in China continue to endure harassment, disbarment, imprisonment, and incessant surveillance. The organisations pointed out several specific cases, including lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who has been forcibly disappeared since 2017, and Ding Jiaxi, who received a 12-year prison sentence in 2023 merely for attending a private meeting with fellow lawyers. The statement also indicated that the families of detained lawyers frequently face hardships as well, losing their jobs, homes, and access to education, while enduring travel restrictions and constant monitoring. As mentioned in the WUC release, the NGOs voiced their concern over the escalating repression of other human rights defenders, including Tibetans, Uyghurs, and residents of Hong Kong. The organisations also condemned China's increasing use of transnational repression to silence dissent beyond its borders. The coalition urged the global community to take substantial actions to hold China accountable for its violations. "Torture is universally condemned under international law," the organisations stated, urging the UN Special Rapporteur and member states to implement stronger measures against these abuses. The statement also received backing from 16 other NGOs, including the Uyghur Human Rights Project, CIVICUS, China Aid, Safeguard Defenders, and the Taipei Bar Association Human Rights Committee.
