Loading ...China accused of using pandemic to secretly kidnap and repatriate runaway dissidents to imprison
China said they were captured for economic crimes, but Beijing is accused of targeting ‘lawyers, dissidents, bloggers, journalists, Tibetans, Uyghurs and Hongkongers’
“Chinese authorities have been accused of carrying out state-sanctioned kidnappings by capturing more than 2,500 “fugitives” abroad and bringing them back to China during the pandemic. “Operation Sky Net” has targeted thousands of purported criminals since 2015, but its scope appears to have been widened to encompass Uyghurs seeking refuge in other countries.
Their methods have allegedly ranged from refusing to renew passports to covert operations labelled “state-sanctioned kidnappings,” the report said.
Examples mentioned are issuing Interpol red notices, intimidating family members in China and even having agents threaten the target in person.”