China abducted its own citizens on EU territory, report finds
China abducted its own citizens on EU territory, report finds
For at least ten years, the Chinese Communist Party has been abducting its overseas citizens on EU territory and forcibly returning them to China - violating the rule of law and public security in Europe - a new report finds.
We've heard some reports about illegal Chinese policestations abroad before. But it seems now that it's been going on for a very long time, and on much broader scale then previously thought.
NB: The original link gives us a 404.
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"Official Chinese figures show 12,000 repatriation cases from more than 120 countries as a result of the two main repatriation campaigns. These are often touted by Beijing as a major success. It is not clear exactly how much of this is propaganda and how much is real data. To give a sense of the scale, a few years ago China managed to persuade 230,000 people to return to China in just one year as part of a special campaign in which the threat of collective punishment was also used as a means of persuasion."
So basically Chinese refuges or expats resident have never been safe. Its not something recent .And apperantly the Chinese Gvement isn't respecting the sovereignty of other countries at all. It's a wakeupcall, our territories are "infiltrated and not safe", and now with the upcoming collaboration between Hungary and China, it will only get worse; if we don't change our ways soon.
"Persuasion." "Repatriate." Uh huh, ok.
What gets me is that these individual countries aren't more concerned that a foreign actor is operating state-sanctioned activities within their borders under the radar. If the script was flipped, say a US operative conducting these activities in China, they'd "disappear" off the radar very quickly.
collaboration between Hungary and China
Incidentally, Euronews was recently bought by investors close to Orban's circle of power and the article link now goes to a 404 page. Not saying it's a gone-spiracy but yknow what yknow when yknow wink wink.
Archive link: https://archive.ph/lEYCn
holy , that's pretty weird. Also getting a 404 now. good you've it on archive. will add it to OP.
iirc: then Chinese mafia occasionally works with the CCP, this was hearsay some 20 years ago though, when I came across some several personal experiences. So I'm not sure .
This is the best summary I could come up with:
For at least ten years, the Chinese Communist Party has been abducting its overseas citizens on EU territory and forcibly returning them to China - violating the rule of law and public security in Europe - a new report finds.
Human rights NGO Safeguard Defenders first revealed in 2022 that China operates more than 120 illegal police offices in 53 countries around the world, including around 50 in the EU.
Now, Safeguard Defenders has produced a 165-page report detailing how the Chinese communist regime has also been abducting its own citizens on EU territory before forcing them back to China.
Laura Harth, one of the report's authors, told Euronews that the abductions ae part of "covert police operations" where agents are being sent abroad on specific missions.
The report details Chinese 'repatriation operations' over the past ten years, which have bypassed the traditional legal route recognised by law, i.e. the international extradition procedure.
Mathieu Michel, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, also weighed in on the issue, saying: "China is pushing and sometimes successfully deploying police forces, they are surrounding interior ministries, but this has to be stopped, it has to be banned, it is a hybrid threat, we cannot tolerate it."
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Here is the entire report by Safeguard Defenders
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This should be the article.
the same article via msn (also archive if this one should go missing too)