UN Body Collaborating with CCP Agency Known for Human Rights Violations: Rights Group
A United Nations body set up to combat drugs and corruption is being questioned for having entered into an agreement with a Chinese extrajudicial agency known for its human rights violations. Madrid-based human rights group Safeguard Defenders announced on June 29 a new investigation into China’s secretive detention system known as “liuzhi,” as well as the […]
A United Nations body set up to combat drugs and corruption is being questioned for having entered into an agreement with a Chinese extrajudicial agency known for its human rights violations. Madrid-based human rights group Safeguard Defenders announced on June 29 a new investigation into China’s secretive detention system known as “liuzhi,” as well as the submission of its investigative findings (pdf) to the U.N. Special Procedures, which consists of special rapporteurs and expert working groups. The rights group calls the liuzhi system a “legalized system for disappearance.” The rights group’s concerns center around how the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) chose to work with the Chinese agency behind the liuzhi system, the National Supervision Commission (NSC). The two signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in October 2019. Since that month, the NSC has subjected at least 28,983 victims to the liuzhi system, according to estimates by the ...
