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Human Rights and Disappearances

An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.

Preserve cases, disappearances, and public memory as human-rights evidence.

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Human Rights and Disappearances: 20 articles

AC-076

What Is "Disappearance": A Modern Totalitarian State's Fear Technology

An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.

3 min
AC-077

Designated-Residence Surveillance: Secret Detention Under Legal Guise

An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.

2 min
AC-078

From Summons to Disconnection: How Chinese-Style Arrests Typically Occur

An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.

3 min
AC-079

Why Families Often Do Not Know Where Their Loved Ones Are Held

An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.

2 min
AC-080

Confession Videos: How State Machinery Manufactures Public Humiliation

An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.

2 min
AC-081

The Crime of Picking Quarrels: A Pocket Charge That Can Fit Anyone

An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.

3 min
AC-082

Illegal Detention and Black Prisons: The Shadow Zone of China's Rule of Law

An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.

2 min
AC-083

Torture and Forced Confessions: The Physical Cost Behind Silence

An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.

2 min
AC-084

Why Rights Defense Lawyers Become Targets of State Crackdown

An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.

3 min
AC-085

Journalists, Scholars, Entrepreneurs, Petitioners: Who Might Be the Next Target

An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.

2 min
AC-086

The Pain of Families of the Disappeared: Waiting, Fear, and Nowhere to Appeal

An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.

2 min
AC-087

The Organ Transplant Black Curtain: Why the Forced Extraction Allegation Must Be Pursued

An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.

2 min
AC-088

Falun Gong, Uyghurs, Conscience Prisoners, and Organ Transplant Controversies

An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.

2 min
AC-089

Between Prisons, Detention Centers, and Hospitals: The Most Covert Chain of State Violence

An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.

1 min
AC-090

Why Totalitarian States Fear Independent Investigation

An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.

1 min
AC-091

What an Ordinary Family Experiences After a Member Is Taken Away

An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.

2 min
AC-092

How the CCP Expands Arrest Boundaries Using "National Security"

An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.

1 min
AC-093

An Absentee List Is Not Numbers, But Individual Families

An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.

2 min
AC-094

How to Record a Case of Arrest, Disappearance, or Detention

An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.

1 min
AC-095

Why Remembering the Disappeared Is a Nation's Conscience

An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.

1 min