A federal court in New York has charged seven Chinese nationals for harassing and coercing a U.S. resident to return to China as part of Beijing’s international extralegal repatriation campaign known as Operation Fox Hunt.
The indictment, recently unsealed by a Brooklyn, N.Y. court, shows that similar operations were carried out on Canadian soil.
In one instance, an operative told a victim identified only as John Doe-1 that People’s Republic of China (PRC) leadership working on his case had offered to meet with him in Toronto, according to the indictment. The operative also arranged for John Doe-1 to talk to a resident of Vancouver who had previously been repatriated….