Loïc Le Belzic, edited by Yanis Darras
According to the NGO Safeguard Defenders, the Chinese present abroad would be monitored by Beijing. According to the NGO, the middle empire has around fifty clandestine police stations, including in France, responsible for helping nationals but also monitoring them and forcibly bringing them back to the country, if necessary.
Security cameras in all the streets, social networks watched… Unsurprisingly, the Chinese regime closely monitors its population. But, for several years, Beijing has not hesitated to do the same for its compatriots abroad. According to a report by the NGO Safeguard Defenders, China has set up around fifty clandestine police stations to spy on the slightest actions and gestures of its nationals around the world. Three would be in France.
Operations that have been going on for a long time
If the Chinese regime recognizes their existence, the power denies hunting down dissidents. However, the middle empire calls its police operations abroad: fox hunting. According to the report of this NGO, 230,000 Chinese accused of crimes have been repatriated over the past year. Objective for the Chinese power through its pharmacies, to track down corrupt officials, political dissidents and even to organize kidnappings as has already happened in Thailand, where Chinese were forcibly brought back to their country.
These operations, which have been going on for ten years, are not denied by China, which does not deny having police officers abroad, but it affirms that it is a question of coming to the aid of its nationals to carry out administrative procedures.
“Respect for the judicial sovereignty of other countries”
“Chinese public security organs resolutely combat all kinds of transnational criminal activities, in accordance with law, and respect the judicial sovereignty of other countries,” Chinese foreign affairs spokesman Wang Wenbin said after the revelations. NGO. But here in China, several people claim to have been monitored while traveling abroad. Contacted by Europe 1, some of them said they had been called directly on their cell phones, threatened or contacted via their families who remained in China, to tell them in a way “be careful, we are watching you!”