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China abducted its own citizens on EU territory, report finds (www.euronews.com)
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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.

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 9 points 6 months ago

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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