Police in New York have arrested two men for allegedly setting up a secret police station for a Chinese provincial police agency to collect information on opponents of the ruling Communist Party.
Such offices have been reported across North America, Europe and in other countries where Chinese communities include critics of the Communist Party who have family or business contacts in China. China, saying that they exist mainly to provide citizen services such as renewing driver's licenses.
Below is a look at the allegations that China is running secret overseas police stations and the backlash they have encountered.The two men who were arrested were acting under the direction and control of a Chinese government official, the Justice Department said in a statement Monday. But the Spain-based nongovernment group Safeguard Defenders accused Chinese police of using the offices to spy on critics abroad and to harass or threaten both citizens and non-citizens in a. A Chinese official claimed last year that 210,000 suspects of fraud were “persuaded to return” to China in 2021 as part of a crackdown on telephone scams, although the researchers wrote that not all were charged with crimes.
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