{"id":11870,"date":"2023-10-05T16:02:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T16:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11870"},"modified":"2023-10-05T16:02:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T16:02:18","slug":"indias-alleged-assassination-of-a-dissident-in-canada-highlights-repression-across-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11870","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Alleged Assassination of a Dissident in Canada Highlights Repression Across Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;&#8221;The Chinese Communist regime, often with the aid of other governments, is systematically hunting down its political and religious exiles, no matter where in the world they seek refuge,&#8221; Nate Schenkkan and Sarah Cook&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2021\/02\/a-global-campaign-of-repression-made-in-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;in 2021 for&nbsp;<em>The Diplomat<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Fox Hunt is a sweeping bid by General Secretary Xi [Jinping] to target Chinese nationals whom he sees as threats and who live outside China, across the world,&#8221; FBI Director Christopher Wray&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/speeches\/the-threat-posed-by-the-chinese-government-and-the-chinese-communist-party-to-the-economic-and-national-security-of-the-united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">charged<\/a>&nbsp;in a 2020 speech. &#8220;We&#8217;re talking about political rivals, dissidents, and critics seeking to expose China&#8217;s extensive human rights violations. Hundreds of the Fox Hunt victims that they target live right here in the United States, and many are American citizens or green card holders.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In April of this year, authorities&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/04\/17\/1170571626\/fbi-arrests-2-on-charges-tied-to-chinese-outpost-in-new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arrested two men<\/a>&nbsp;accused of helping establish a secret Chinese &#8220;police station&#8221; in New York&#8217;s Chinatown. &#8220;The PRC, through its repressive security apparatus, established a secret physical presence in New York City to monitor and intimidate dissidents and those critical of its government,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edny\/pr\/two-individuals-arrested-operating-undeclared-police-station-chinese-government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a>&nbsp;to U.S. Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Turkey&#8217;s government, it should be noted,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2021\/03\/02\/why-erdogan-has-abandoned-the-uyghurs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cooperates with Beijing to silence Muslim Uyghur refugees<\/a>&nbsp;who fled to Turkey, and it has sought assistance in muzzling its own dissidents. &#8220;Uzbekistani security services helped abduct a man from his apartment in Tashkent and return him to Turkey,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freedomhouse.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-05\/Complete_TransnationalRepressionReport2022_NEW_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">notes<\/a>&nbsp;Freedom House.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"uwgpGm4WrL\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/09\/27\/indias-alleged-assassination-of-a-dissident-in-canada-highlights-repression-across-borders\/\">India&#8217;s Alleged Assassination of a Dissident in Canada Highlights Repression Across Borders<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;India&#039;s Alleged Assassination of a Dissident in Canada Highlights Repression Across Borders&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/09\/27\/indias-alleged-assassination-of-a-dissident-in-canada-highlights-repression-across-borders\/embed\/#?secret=oxpCVLooTs#?secret=uwgpGm4WrL\" data-secret=\"uwgpGm4WrL\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8221;The Chinese Communist regime, often with the aid of other governments, is systematically hunting down its political and religious exiles, no matter where in the world they seek refuge,&#8221; Nate Schenkkan and Sarah Cook reported in 2021 for The Diplomat.<br \/>\n&#8220;Fox Hunt is a sweeping bid by General Secretary Xi [Jinping] to target Chinese nationals whom he sees as threats and who live outside China, across the world,&#8221; FBI Director Christopher Wray charged in a 2020 speech. &#8220;We&#8217;re talking about political rivals, dissidents, and critics seeking to expose China&#8217;s extensive human rights violations. Hundreds of the Fox Hunt victims that they target live right here in the United States, and many are American citizens or green card holders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In April of this year, authorities arrested two men accused of helping establish a secret Chinese &#8220;police station&#8221; in New York&#8217;s Chinatown. &#8220;The PRC, through its repressive security apparatus, established a secret physical presence in New York City to monitor and intimidate dissidents and those critical of its government,&#8221; according to U.S. Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Turkey&#8217;s government, it should be noted, cooperates with Beijing to silence Muslim Uyghur refugees who fled to Turkey, and it has sought assistance in muzzling its own dissidents. &#8220;Uzbekistani security services helped abduct a man from his apartment in Tashkent and return him to Turkey,&#8221; notes Freedom House.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/09\/27\/indias-alleged-assassination-of-a-dissident-in-canada-highlights-repression-across-borders\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,293,89,660,272,355,83,314,972,418,661],"class_list":["post-11870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-dictatorship","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-india","tag-international-relations","tag-murder","tag-turkey","tag-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11871,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870\/revisions\/11871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}