A Belfast-based activist from Hong Kong has called on the UK government to shut down an alleged Chinese 'police station' operating in Belfast
that the stations were being used to try to silence Chinese dissidents in Europe.
Mr Yu, who has lived in Northern Ireland for about 30 years and sits on the board of the NI Council for Racial Equality , told BBC News NI: "I think it's about the monitoring of Chinese citizens and a way of threatening them.Mr Yu, who helped organise some of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, said he is unable to return to Hong Kong because of his campaigning and
"We know that they are bringing Chinese dissidents in, confronting them with videos of their families and threatening their families in front of them if they do not co-operate, leave and go back to China," said the former Conservative leader. The EU director of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, Mark Sabah, told BBC News NI that UK authorities "have done nothing" on the matter of Chinese-controlled stations, despite mounting political pressure.
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