Commentary
The number of house arrests in China has increased under Xi Jinping. Furthermore, revisions to the Criminal Procedure Law have allowed the regime in Beijing to weaponize house arrest and use it to target rights defenders and dissidents.
Chinese police officers walk outside the newly built Museum of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing, China, on June 25, 2021. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
Peter Dahlin
Author
Peter Dahlin is the founder of the NGO Safeguard Defenders and the co-founder of the Beijing-based Chinese NGO China Action (2007–2016). He is the author of “Trial By Media,” and contributor to “The People’s Republic of the Disappeared.” He lived in Beijing from 2007, until detained and placed in a secret jail in 2016, subsequently deported and banned. Prior to living in China, he worked for the Swedish government with gender equality issues, and now lives in Madrid, Spain.
