China has set up more than 100 overseas “police stations” around the world to monitor its citizens, says a new report by human rights activists Safeguard Defenders
Croatia has no information about the presence of illegal Chinese police stations on its territory, police said in a statement Sunday, responding to a CNN report that specifically referred to Croatia.
China has created more from 100 overseas “police departmentsaround the world to track its citizens, according to a new report by human rights activists Safeguard Defenders, CNN reports in a report published Sunday (Dec. 4).
The report focused on the role that joint policing initiatives between China and several European states—including Croatia, Serbia and Romania—allegedly played in the expansion of Chinese bases abroad.
“The police have information – based on their own knowledge or that provided by other agencies they cooperate with – about the existence or activity of illegal police stations in Zagreb or Croatia,” the interior ministry said in the statement.
Police spokeswoman Jelena Bikic told state broadcaster HRT that Chinese police were in Croatia under a 2017 bilateral agreement. “for the purpose of facilitating communication with tourists from China and for a month.”
Six Chinese police officers came to Croatia in the summer of 2018 and eight in 2019, the interior ministry said. There were none during the COVID-19 crisis in 2020 and 2021, and eight of them came this year, he said.
“We can describe the cooperation as positive and professional,” Bikic added.
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