China stepping up use of secret detention without trial, report warns

Rights activists say country has built one of world's most far-ranging systems of forced disappearance

China has ramped up its use of secret detention without trial, creating one of the most far-ranging systems of forced disappearance in the world, human rights activists warn in a report.

Tens of thousands of people have been subjected to residential surveillance at a designated location" (RSDL), an anodyne, bureaucratic name for an Orwellian system, the group Safeguard Defenders said in the report, Locked Up.