Photo: Chinese President Xi Jinping has introduced laws that pave the way for arbitrary and secret detentions. (ABC News: Jarrod Fankhauser)
ABC News Online: China 'disappeared' several high-profile people in 2018 and some of them are still missing
From prominent celebrities to the Interpol chief, the world has seen millions of people in China seemingly vanish into thin air over the past few years — and yet the international community has remained largely silent.
After taking power in 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping introduced new laws that essentially made arbitrary and secret detentions legal under Chinese law.
These complex laws, as well as exceptions that can be used to strip detainees of their rights on the grounds of "national security", have been adjusted and expanded in recent years, with movie star Fan Bingbing and gene-editing scientist He Jiankui among the latest casualties.
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WNU Editor: This still pales to the one million Uighurs who have been imprisoned in labor camps .... China says pace of Xinjiang 'education' will slow, but defends camps (Reuters), but this trend of people being arrested in China and not heard from again is growing.
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