China: Forced return to home by “fox hunting” 10,000 people:
-Dispatching agents overseas-
-Expansion of crackdown across Chinese borders-
January 19, 2022
Chinese “fox hunting”:
China is conducting “fox hunting” activities.
10,000 people who are said to have fled the country
By means such as kidnapping and pressure on the family
They are forced to return home under the initiative of the government.
Human rights groups
Safeguard Defenders
The human rights group Safeguard Defenders pointed out in a report released on January 18. It was
President Xi Jinping of China has started this activity.
In seven years, 9946 people were deported.
The Chinese government says it is a “voluntary” return.
However, in order to force him to return home
Means that transcended the boundaries of laws and regulations were used.
Chinese anti-corruption authorities:
According to the data released, the peak of deportation will be 2041 in 2019.
National Supervisory Commission:
It reported that there were 1114 people from January to November last year.
Group director
Peter Darling
In 2016, as “disseminating negative information about China”
He was detained in a detention facility called “Black Prison” for three weeks.
Peter Darling was released from detention after being confessed on state television.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China:
On January 19, It did not respond to the request for comment. It was
–Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.co.jp/news/articles/2022-01-19/R5XX9VT1UM0W01
China’s “fox hunting operation” has taken more than 2,500 people overseas for the past two years = human rights group | The Epoch Times
https://www.epochtimes.jp/2022/01/85030.html
Involuntary Returns – report
exposes long-arm policing overseas |
Safeguard Defenders Just around Christmas last year,
China’s global hunt for “fugitives” hit a new milestone.
Since its launch in 2014 as part of Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign,
10,000 are claimed to have been successfully returned from over 120 countries around the globe under Sky Net (and junior partner Fox Hunt) operations.
Legally sanctioned methods under the PRC’s National Supervision Law
range from detaining family members back in China,
to sending police overseas on secret missions to intimidate targets into returning, to outright kidnappings abroad.
https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/involuntary-returns-report-exposes-long-arm-policing-overseas
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