Vancouver has at the very least one secret police station: Civil rights group

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VANCOUVER — A Spanish civil rights group says Vancouver has at the very least one secret police station operated by Chinese language authorities.

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The group Safeguard Defenders stated in a report in September that there have been Chinese language police operations around the globe, together with three in Toronto, and an up to date report names one other 48 areas.

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Safeguard Defenders – a not-for-profit human rights group – says two of the brand new areas are in Canada: one in Vancouver and the second unknown.

The group’s earlier report alleges staff from the abroad police system use intimidation and threats to implement the “involuntary” return of immigrants again to China for persecution.

Nobody from the Chinese language Embassy was instantly accessible for touch upon the brand new info, nevertheless it has beforehand described the places of work as volunteer-run service stations to course of issues like driver’s licences.

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The report says the newly documented Vancouver-based police station is being operated by authorities from Wenzhou, a port and industrial metropolis in China’s Zhejiang province.

It says a lot of the newly documented stations have been arrange beginning in 2016, straight refuting the federal government of China’s earlier statements that the operations have been began in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“New info reveals at the very least one unlawful ‘persuasion to return’ operation run by way of the Wenzhou station in Paris, France; and at the very least 80 instances the place the Nantong abroad police system assisted within the seize and/or persuasion to return operation,” the report says.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated final month that on the G20 summit in Indonesia, he raised the problem of interference straight with Chinese language President Xi Jinping, who later berated him for informing media about their dialog.