According to the information in a report by the Asian human rights organisation Safeguard Defenders, China is opening police stations in Canada to serve as outposts for China's Involuntary Return policy.
In an apparent effort by the country's security state to monitor the Chinese-Canadian diaspora, the People's Republic of China has opened at least three police stations on Canadian soil.
The Fuzhou Public Security Bureau, a law enforcement agency operating in the Chinese metropolis of Fuzhou, is known to have registered three addresses in Toronto as "service stations" run by the bureau.
The information was revealed in a report (pdf below) that the Asian human rights organisation Safeguard Defenders just released.
Local media is now step-by-step investigating many of these stations, with SD's help, and we have collected lots of data on many of them, to push understanding about these stations further.
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China argues that the stations' sole purpose is to help expats with administrative procedures like renewing their driver's licences.
According to Safeguard...