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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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What Is "Disappearance": A Modern Totalitarian State's Fear Technology
Preserve cases, disappearances, and public memory as human-rights evidence.
AC-077 / 2 minDesignated-Residence Surveillance: Secret Detention Under Legal Guise
Preserve cases, disappearances, and public memory as human-rights evidence.
AC-078 / 3 minFrom Summons to Disconnection: How Chinese-Style Arrests Typically Occur
Preserve cases, disappearances, and public memory as human-rights evidence.
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Human Rights and Disappearances: 20 articles
What Is "Disappearance": A Modern Totalitarian State's Fear Technology
An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.
Designated-Residence Surveillance: Secret Detention Under Legal Guise
An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.
From Summons to Disconnection: How Chinese-Style Arrests Typically Occur
An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.
Why Families Often Do Not Know Where Their Loved Ones Are Held
An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.
Confession Videos: How State Machinery Manufactures Public Humiliation
An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.
The Crime of Picking Quarrels: A Pocket Charge That Can Fit Anyone
An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.
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.
Torture and Forced Confessions: The Physical Cost Behind Silence
An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.
Why Rights Defense Lawyers Become Targets of State Crackdown
An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.
Journalists, Scholars, Entrepreneurs, Petitioners: Who Might Be the Next Target
An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.
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.
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.
Falun Gong, Uyghurs, Conscience Prisoners, and Organ Transplant Controversies
An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.
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.
Why Totalitarian States Fear Independent Investigation
An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.
What an Ordinary Family Experiences After a Member Is Taken Away
An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.
How the CCP Expands Arrest Boundaries Using "National Security"
An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.
An Absentee List Is Not Numbers, But Individual Families
An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.
How to Record a Case of Arrest, Disappearance, or Detention
An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.
Why Remembering the Disappeared Is a Nation's Conscience
An archive of disappearance, state violence, and the ethics of public memory.