The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has captured nearly 10,000 “fugitives” from abroad since 2014, in a campaign employing methods ranging from kidnapping to intimidating families, according to a new report. Under the guise of an anti-corruption campaign, the Chinese regime launched Operation Fox Hunt in 2014, followed by a broader Operation Sky Net in 2015, which aimed to repatriate misbehaving officials and other economic criminals. Human rights group Safeguard Defenders, in a Jan. 18 report, described Beijing’s repatriation campaign as creating a “global regime of political terror.” The report noted the CCP’s continued efforts to hunt down overseas targets during the pandemic, despite lockdown and travel restrictions around the world. The Chinese regime brought back 1,421 individuals in 2020, and 1,114 in the first 11 months of 2021, the report said. “This is only the tip of the iceberg,” Laura Heath, director of Safeguard Defender, told EpochTV’s “China Insider” program. …
‘A Global Regime of Political Terror’: Beijing Forcibly Brought Back 10,000 Citizens From Overseas Since 2014, Report Says
January 21, 2022
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