Safeguard Defenders is a not-for profit human rights organization that monitors disappearances in China.

Co-founded by Michael Caster and Peter Dahlin in June 2019 in Madrid, Spain, it operates as a private foundation.

[5] After some years of low profile activity, the foundation was re-established in Madrid under the name Safeguard Defenders, with a wider scope of work spanning across Asia while being specialized in documenting and combatting transnational repression by China.

[6] In October 2022, Safeguard Defenders published a report on China's Ministry of Public Security's clandestine police stations around the world.

[7][8] In November 2022, NewsGuard reported that a pro-Chinese government disinformation campaign on Twitter had been launched against it.