Institution File
Police and State-Security RSDL System
Decides, executes, and records RSDL.
Contents
Formal position
Decides, executes, and records RSDL. 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-recordLive
SPP Rules on Oversight of Residential Surveillance at a Designated Locationprimary-recordLive
Five-Agency Rules on Strict Exclusion of Illegally Obtained Evidenceprimary-recordLive
Implementation Measures for the Detention Center Regulationsprimary-recordLive
MPS and Ministry of Justice Notice on Lawyer Meetings in Detention Centersprimary-recordLive
Mental Health Law of the PRCprimary-recordUnavailable
Exit and Entry Administration Law of the PRCprimary-recordLive
Prison Law of the PRCprimary-recordLive
NPC Standing Committee Decision Amending the Supervision Lawprimary-recordLive
UN Mandates Communication on RSDLgovernment-reportLive
UN Expert Statement on Chang Weiping and the Crackdown on Lawyersgovernment-reportLive
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Findings after China Visitgovernment-reportLive
CECC Report on China's Criminal Justice Systemgovernment-reportLive
UN Experts Renew Call for Accountability for Cao Shunli's Deathgovernment-reportLive
2024 U.S. State Department Human Rights Report on Chinagovernment-reportLive
CECC 2025 Annual Reportgovernment-reportLive
Reporting on the 709 Crackdown on Human Rights Lawyersinvestigative-reportingLive
Human Rights Watch Investigation of China's Black Jailsinvestigative-reportingLive