FBI arrests two New Yorkers accused of running covert Chinese police station
by Julian Borger in Washington from World news | The Guardian on (#6AWR6)
The station, in New York's Chinatown, was allegedly run by Beijing's ministry of public security to track Chinese dissidents
The FBI has arrested two men accused of running a covert station for China's police force in New York, and using it as a base to track Chinese dissidents living in the US.
The station, in Manhattan's Chinatown, was allegedly set up in February 2022 and operated by Beijing's ministry of public security (MPS) as part of a campaign of transnational repression against Chinese pro-democracy activists and other political opponents around the world.
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