Chinese uses 54 officespositioned 21 countries To harass dissident Chinese immigrants from 5 continents and deter them from returning This is documented in the ‘110 Overseas’ report by the human rights NGO Safeguard Defenders, which has been echoed by the US magazine ‘Newsweek’ and the British channel BBC. One of these “illegal police stations” Santiago de CompostelaAccording to the NGO, which also cites three centers in Madrid, three in Barcelona and two in Valencia.
Safeguard Defenders, a Madrid-based NGO made up of international activists and researchers, states that these offices are run by the Chinese government. Handling transnational crimes and performing administrative dutiesSuch as the renewal of Chinese driver’s licenses and other civil procedures. But according to Safeguard Defenders, they are actually conducting “persuasion operations” aimed at forcing those suspected of speaking out against the Xi Jinping regime to return to their countries.
as part of a major national campaign tackling the growing problem fake – especially in telecommunications – Chinese authorities have determined that 230,000 Chinese citizens living abroad from April 2021 to July of this year “convinced to come back” to face a criminal investigation in his country. According to Madrid-based Safeguard Defenders, it began in 2018 and has evolved in parallel with the establishment of “overseas service police stations”, sometimes called “110 Foreigners” after the police emergency telephone number in China.
Yesterday, Dutch news service RTL Nieuws and investigative journalism platform Follow the Money published the story of Chinese dissident Wang Jingyu, who claimed he was persecuted by Chinese police in the Netherlands. Wang told reporters earlier this year that he received a call from someone claiming to be from one of these police stations. During the interview he said: They asked him to return to China to “solve his problems and think about his parents”.. He added that he has since been the target of a systematic campaign of harassment and intimidation, which he believes has been orchestrated by Chinese government agents. In response to these disclosures, the Chinese embassy in the Netherlands told RTL that it was not aware of the existence of such police stations.
Dutch authorities said yesterday they are investigating reports about two secret Chinese police stations in the Netherlands. “These offices are illegalDutch Foreign Ministry spokesman Maxime Hovenkamp told the BBC. “The Dutch government was not informed of these operations through diplomatic channels with the Chinese government,” he said. Ministry sources described it as “very worrying, apparently a Chinese citizen’s exposure”. Bullying and harassment In the Netherlands,” he added, the police are considering options to provide him with protection.
According to the Efe agency, the journalism platform RTL Nieuws and Follow the Money published some photos of these “foreign police stations” and listed a total of 46 of them. NGO Safeguard Defenders, for its part, has published some photos of these “foreign police stations”. report the specific places they’ve been.
RTL and Follow the Money journalists launched their investigations after receiving data from Safeguard Defenders. They analyzed Chinese government websites, public messages on Chinese social media, articles on Chinese news pages, and posts targeting Chinese in the Netherlands.
“Chinese Galician”
According to a report by Safeguard Defenders, of the 9 illegal police stations in Spain, 5 are in the Fuzhou city prefecture and the other 4 – including Santiago de Compostela – are controlled by the Qingtian, of which the majority of the population belongs. Chinese immigration to Spain. Journalist Zigor Aldama pointed out that while he was a reporter in China seven years ago, Qingtian “is what the collective imagination for China ascribes to Galicia in Spain. cradle of immigrants”.
According to 2021 data from the National Institute of Statistics, there are 3,249 Chinese citizens in Galicia, out of 229,254 of the total population in Spain. This is 1.4% of the country’s total, and the population of Galicia is 5.7% of Spaniards.
“Convince to go back”
Safeguard Defenders is a Madrid-based human rights NGO, although its leaders are Swedish, British, Chinese, American, Taiwanese and Italian. Its origin is China Action, which was founded in 2009 by two human rights activists, the Swedish Peter Dahlin and the American Michael Caster. Its mission was to support China’s fledgling legal community. The Chinese dictatorship ended this NGO in 2016 when many of its leaders and collaborators were arrested, imprisoned or disappeared. Another report, called “Reluctant Extraditions,” by Defenders of Protection, describes how the Chinese regime is doing. forcible repatriation of persons accused of fraud, particularly internet fraud. Overseas Chinese and/or their families in China come into direct contact to “encourage” them to return to China to face legal action or otherwise face the consequences. They call it “convincing to return,” and the NGO points out that it was applied to opponents of the communist regime in Beijing. According to Safeguard Defenders, they are monitoring the “target’s” family in China to pressure them through intimidation, harassment, detention or imprisonment, all of which aim to “voluntarily” turn the target back. Another method is to harass and threaten the “target” of the Chinese regime online or in person – often through undercover agents. The third method, the NGO says, involves the abduction of Chinese in foreign lands, which still has no record.