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| Two men were arrested on Monday on charges that they helped establish a secret police station in New York City on behalf of the Chinese government, and about three dozen officers with China’s national police force were charged with using social media to harass dissidents inside the United States, authorities said.
The cases, taken together, are part of a series of Justice Department prosecutions in recent years aimed at disruptingto locate pro-democracy activists and others in the US who are openly critical of Beijing’s policies, and to suppress their speech. The glass facade building, second from left, is believed to be the site of a foreign police outpost for China in New York’s Chinatown.One of three cases announced on Monday concerns a local branch of the Chinese Ministry of Public Security that had operated inside an office building in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighbourhood before closing last fall amid an FBI investigation.
The two men who were arrested were acting under the direction and control of a Chinese government official and deleted communication with that official from their phones after learning of the FBI’s probe, according to the Justice Department.
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