Illegal Chinese police stations abroad: new data from an NGO

A member of the honor guard stands at attention in front of the French and Chinese flags waving near the large portrait of Mao in Tiananmen Square, before a welcoming ceremony for French President Emmanuel Macron in Beijing, November 6, 2019 (photo illustration).

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The NGO Safeguard Defenders is preparing to publish new revelations on Monday, December 5, about the clandestine and illegal police stations opened by China abroad.

There would be a hundred around the world, including several in France.

This is twice as much as when the organization last published a report in September.

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Beijing would use these spaces to monitor and put pressure on its nationals living abroad.

The accusations are not new, but they testify to the extent of the communist regime's sprawling network.

China is said to have opened more than 100 clandestine and illegal police stations across the planet.

According to Safeguard Defenders, Beijing uses these posts to pressure and intimidate Chinese dissidents living abroad.

Also according to the NGO, China would have opened several police stations of this type on French territory and a Chinese national would have been forced to return to China by undercover agents, from a station located in the Paris suburbs.

The Chinese power, for its part, refutes such accusations.

According to Beijing, these posts provide consular assistance to their nationals, particularly following the coronavirus pandemic and the closure of Chinese borders.

The report is to be released as China has had turbulent weeks, with unprecedented waves of protests against health restrictions in place for nearly three years.

Demonstrations which also found an echo abroad, under the impetus of the Chinese diaspora.

#BREAKING China operating over 100 police stations in 53 countries across the world with help of some host nations.@NdosSantosCNN @CNN in exclusive preview of our new investigation “Patrol & Persuade” - follow-up to #110Overseas - out tmrw Dec. 5 !

🧵👇https://t.co/Ghc3uSe9br

— Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) (@SafeguardDefend) December 4, 2022

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