Chen Jinping admitted to running an illegal Chinese police station in New York City to persecute anti-communist dissidents. This case highlights the Chinese government's global efforts to silence critics.
One of two men arrested in April 2023 for running an illegal Chinese police station to persecute anti-communists in New York City, Chen Jinping, pled guilty to a conspiracy charge. Chen Jinping and “Harry” Lu Jiangwang were arrested on charges of conspiring to act as agents of the Chinese government and obstruction of justice, a charge related to them allegedly deleting evidence of communications with Chinese Communist Party officials.
Chen pled guilty to the conspiracy charge, which carries a maximum of five years in prison (the obstruction of justice charges would carry a total of 20 years in prison). Lu, the Justice Department noted on Wednesday, has pled not guilty to all the charges. The scandal of China erecting illegal, secret police stations around the world to persecute dissidents erupted following the publication of a report by the human rights group Safeguard Defenders in September 2022. The report showed how China used the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to open what it referred to as “service centers,” ostensibly intended to help Chinese citizens abroad renew their passports, licenses, and other legal documents. In reality, the “service centers” were hunting down prominent political dissidents, in some cases harassing their families or forcing them to repatriate into China’s draconian justice system. No evidence indicates that China informed the countries targeted – a long list including France, Spain, Brazil, Nigeria, and Canada, among others – of its law enforcement operations on their soil. In comments on Wednesday following the guilty plea from Chen, Ken Peace, a justice department official, said the illegal police station was a “transnational repression” mechanism to silence critics of the genocidal Chinese regime. “Today, a participant in a transnational repression scheme who worked to establish a secret police station in the middle of New York City on behalf of the national police force of the People’s Republic of China has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to act as an illegal agent,” Peace said in a statement
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