cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/35956406

China Travel Magazine: Dissident Edition - published by Safeguard Defenders, a human rights organization - examines the illegal practice of forced travel, where the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) disappears its critics on secret trips to keep them silent at sensitive times [such as on June 4].

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China Travel Magazine: Dissident Edition -- [pdf]

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On 30 May [2025] Chinese police took Beijing-based, independent journalist Gao Yu (who is in her 80s!), on a forced trip and that Guizhou activist Ji Feng had received a call warning him he would also be travelled for these few days. At 9pm on 28 May, Gao posted on X that she would not be able to tweet [for a while], in a reply to her own tweet about heightened security connected to June 4.

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While forced travel is not as draconian as the CCP’s other tools of repression used against activists and petitioners, such as Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location, psychiatric detentions, collective punishment of family members or criminal prosecution and yearslong prison sentences, it is still a form of arbitrary detention. It violates the fundamental human rights to freedom, liberty of movement, expression and privacy. Some activists have been forced to go on trips while a loved one is dying back home.

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