The US Department of Justice ramps up probes into what it calls 'transnational repression' by US adversaries such as China and Iran to intimidate political opponents living in the United States.
NEW YORK, USA – US law enforcement officials on Monday, April 17, arrested two New York residents for allegedly operating a Chinese “secret police station” in Manhattan’s Chinatown, part of a crackdown on Beijing’s alleged targeting of US-based dissidents.
The Department of Justice has been ramping up probes into what it calls “transnational repression” by US adversaries such as China and Iran to intimidate political opponents living in the United States. They also added eight Chinese government officials as defendants in a case announced in 2020 charging a former China-based executive of Zoom Video Communications Inc with disrupting video meetings commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.China’s embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In 2022, Lu helped open the so-called police station and was asked by China’s government to locate an individual living in California who was considered a pro-democracy activist, they added. In 2018, Lu had sought to persuade an individual considered a fugitive by China to return home, prosecutors said.
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