The Chinese government has opened police stations in Nigeria and in over 20 countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa as part of its measures to curtail criminal activities being perpetrated by its citizens abroad.
According to a report, titled, ‘110 Overseas Chinese Policing Gone Wild.’ which was released on Tuesday by the Pan-Asian Human Rights NGO, Safeguard Defenders, the repression of Chinese living abroad suspected to have been involved in crimes has become alarming. Hence, the police stations are created to bring “down on all kinds of illegal and criminal activities involving overseas Chinese” in accordance with international laws and best policing practices.
“Rather than using legal forms of international cooperation, they resort to pressuring targets to return, in fact some 230,000 people for a little over a year. Tied to this, a new law this year will establish full extraterritorial powers for China” the report shows.
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The report also read: “Rather than cooperating with local authorities in the full respect of territorial sovereignty, it prefers… to cooperate with (United Front-linked) overseas ‘NGOs’ or ‘civil society associations’ across the the continents, setting up an alternative policing and judicial system within third countries, and directly implicating those organisations in the illegal methods employed to pursue ‘fugitives’.”
It further said that as part of a massive nationwide campaign to combat fraud and telecommunication fraud by Chinese citizens living abroad, Chinese authorities claimed that from April 2021 to July 2022, 230,000 nationals had been, “persuaded to return” to face criminal proceedings in China.
According to the Vanguard, the rights group revealed that China selected nine countries as having serious fraud, telecom fraud and web crimes, and Chinese nationals were no longer allowed to stay in those countries without “good reason.”
“While establishing these operations to hunt down those accused of fraud and telecommunications fraud, China has identified nine countries particularly prone to hosting Chinese nationals engaging in such criminal activities, the ‘nine forbidden countries” the Safeguard explained.
The group also noted that forsaking any “pretext of due process or the consideration of suspects’ innocence until proven guilty, targeting suspects’ children and relatives in China as ‘guilty by association’ or ‘collateral damage’, and using threats and intimidation to target suspects abroad, is now itself becoming an endemic problem.”
“Whether the targets are dissidents, corrupt officials or low-level criminals, the problem remains the same: The use of irregular methods — often combining carrots with sticks — against the targeted individual or their family members in China undermines any due process and the most basic rights of suspects” Safeguard Defender further stated.
Apart from Nigeria, Lesotho and Tanzania are the two other African countries that have Chinese police stations.
how can the leaders be so stupid? if you go to their country will they allow you to build a police station there? no, you can’t even buy land there. They are not your friends, they look down on african people and are there to take over and recolonize Africa. Africans fought for freedom and independence many years ago and you guys are just sitting back as they slowly rob the countries of it’s resources and take over. This is so upsetting, who will help you if you guys won’t help yourselves?
They are already doing that through loans
The T& C is really crazy they would claim our resources if we fail to pay…. what the hell