Reports indicate that the Chinese government has opened police stations in Nigeria and 20 other countries across the world. The action was taken to address the rising criminal actions of Chinese nationals abroad.
A report titled “110 Overseas Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild” that was released by a group called Safeguard Defender featured information about the China police station.
The report notes that China has opened these police stations in an attempt to “combat the growing issue of fraud and telecommunication fraud by Chinese nationals living abroad,” and its operations have resulted in 230,000 Chinese nationals being “persuaded to return” to China “voluntarily” in the last year to face criminal prosecution.
The report also outlines the potential human rights abuses associated with the stations, including using harassment and intimidation methods, such as threatening the family members of the overseas citizens.
Human rights groups have raised concerns over China’s actions. Safeguard Defenders Campaign Director Laura Harth said on Monday that the number of secret police stations set up around the world by the Chinese government had been “growing” after 54 stations were initially uncovered in 30 countries.
In a nationwide broadcast on Sunday, Jinping said corruption, “is a cancer to the vitality and ability” of the Communist Party and “fighting corruption is the most thorough kind of self-reform there is,” adding that as long as “the breeding grounds and conditions for corruption still exist, we must keep sounding the bugle and never rest, not even for a minute, in our fight against corruption.”
The rights group revealed that China designated 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.”
