Institution File
National Supervision Custody System
Manages liuzhi, protective custody, ordered availability, and duty-crime investigations.
Contents
Formal position
Manages liuzhi, protective custody, ordered availability, and duty-crime investigations. This file separates legal mandate, Party leadership, and operational interfaces. Possession of authority does not establish its use in every case; decisions, personnel, places, and chronology still require proof.
Authority and tools
The system can use registration, approval, lists, investigation, facility control, data access, education, medical processes, or personnel coordination. These tools have different legal effects. Formal coercion should have approval and oversight, administration should allow review, and informal pressure is harder to challenge.
Institutional interfaces
Superior political and policy bodies set direction, competent departments issue rules, and local or grassroots units implement. Police, procurators, courts, hospitals, schools, companies, or communities enter by issue. More interfaces make it necessary to separate decision, execution, and public explanation.
Power logic
Capacity comes from persistent records and cross-agency cooperation. A person can be classified before entering a procedure, and the result returns to the file and shapes later treatment. Closed records and diffuse responsibility reward wider restriction.
Evidence limits
Domestic laws and oversight rules state formal safeguards, while external reports test whether they are usable in sensitive cases. [1] [2]
Sources
- NPC Standing Committee Decision Amending the Criminal Procedure Lawprimary-record
- SPP Rules on Oversight of Residential Surveillance at a Designated Locationprimary-record
- Five-Agency Rules on Strict Exclusion of Illegally Obtained Evidenceprimary-record
- Implementation Measures for the Detention Center Regulationsprimary-record
- MPS and Ministry of Justice Notice on Lawyer Meetings in Detention Centersprimary-record
- Mental Health Law of the PRCprimary-record
- Exit and Entry Administration Law of the PRCprimary-record
- Prison Law of the PRCprimary-record
- NPC Standing Committee Decision Amending the Supervision Lawprimary-record
- UN Mandates Communication on RSDLgovernment-report
- UN Expert Statement on Chang Weiping and the Crackdown on Lawyersgovernment-report
- UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Findings after China Visitgovernment-report
- CECC Report on China's Criminal Justice Systemgovernment-report
- UN Experts Renew Call for Accountability for Cao Shunli's Deathgovernment-report
- 2024 U.S. State Department Human Rights Report on Chinagovernment-report
- CECC 2025 Annual Reportgovernment-report
- Reporting on the 709 Crackdown on Human Rights Lawyersinvestigative-reporting
- Human Rights Watch Investigation of China's Black Jailsinvestigative-reporting