China's Foreign Ministry on Thursday identified one of the four people repatriated to China in a prisoner exchange that freed three Americans imprisoned in the country as a “fugitive” from the Chinese Communist Party, saying, “No one is a communist.” “You cannot escape from the 'justice' of ”
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning claimed that the three other repatriated Chinese were “unlawfully detained” in the United States. The Chinese Communist Party has not identified the individuals that outgoing President Joe Biden's administration sent back to China in exchange for American hostages.
The Biden administration announced Thursday that three Americans, Mark Swidan, Kai Li and John Leung, are on their way back from China as part of negotiations with the communist regime. three americans arrived local time late Wednesday in Texas.
Swidan is arrested In 2012, he was charged with involvement in drug crimes in China. Strict Chinese legal system declared He was sentenced to death in April 2023, more than a decade after his first detention. Swidan was in China on a business trip and was arrested after Chinese police claimed to have found drugs on some of his colleagues, but reportedly shared no drug evidence about himself. He says he didn't. Still he accused Being a methamphetamine trafficker.
Kai Lee is arrested When he landed in Shanghai in 2016 to celebrate the anniversary of his mother's death, he was accused of spying and was ultimately sentenced to 10 years in prison. U.S. authorities have denied any relationship with Li as a spy and accused the Chinese government of torturing him and denying him basic due process, including access to a lawyer.
John Leon was also charged with “espionage.'' declared Before his arrest, Leung reportedly organized pro-regime events in the United States and even received public praise from Chinese state propagandists for mentoring “patriotic” communists abroad. .
Biden administration clearly approves of prisoner exchange Award Downgrading of the State Department's travel warning due to the genocidal Chinese regime. The State Department is now asking Americans to “exercise increased vigilance” while in China, rather than completely “reconsider travel.” After the exchange, the State Department claimed that no Americans are currently “unjustly imprisoned” there as a result. However, former political prisoner Peter Humphrey said in an interview with Washington newspaper Politico that there were “nearly 300 American prisoners of war remaining in China” and declared that changing the travel warning would be “grossly irresponsible”. .
The identities of the individuals whose Americans were trafficked remain unknown. Mao simply blamed the U.S. judicial system for imprisoning three of them.
“Thanks to the tireless efforts of the Chinese government, three Chinese nationals who were unjustly detained by the United States have safely returned to China. This once again shows that China will never give up on its people,” said a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mao Ning said. said Reporters on Thursday.
“The motherland will always support us. China will continue to resolutely oppose the oppression and persecution of the Chinese people under the political initiative of the United States, and will take all necessary measures to protect the legitimate and lawful rights and interests of the Chinese people. I would like to emphasize that we will continue to take these measures.
Mao Zedong detailed that one of the people repatriated to China was not “unjustly detained” but was “a fugitive who fled to the United States many years ago and is now being repatriated to China.” added. Spokespeople used this opportunity to intimidate enemies of communist countries abroad.
“No one can escape justice, and no place on earth can remain forever safe for crime.The Chinese government continues its efforts to bring back fugitives and recover illegal proceeds, ensuring that all I won't rest until it's done,'' she declared.
Mao too celebrated Chinese authorities announced the downgrade of the travel warning, saying they “oppose any move that could have a chilling effect.”
The identity of the alleged Chinese fugitive and which laws the regime claims he violated, as China is notorious for persecuting anti-communists around the world to silence their beliefs. may be a cause for caution. Human rights organization Freedom House I will explain China has waged “the world's most sophisticated, global and comprehensive cross-border repression campaign,” and has targeted “multiple ethnic and religious minorities, political dissidents, human rights activists, and journalists.” , former insiders” are similarly persecuted. Tactics that China uses to silence and persecute individuals it considers to be enemies of communism range from direct attacks such as staging, to using other countries to detain and turn people into exile, to restricting their movement, and from remote locations. It ranges from “threat” to “threat”.
“These tactics impact millions of Chinese people and China's ethnic minorities in at least 36 host countries on all inhabited continents,” the group said in its Transnational Repression report. I am doing it.
One of the most alarming ways China persecutes dissidents abroad is by establishing illegal police stations throughout the free world. In a shocking September 2022 report, human rights group Safeguard Defenders found that China operates dozens of such secret police stations in cities including New York, Toronto, Dublin, Budapest and Tokyo. It was revealed that there was.
In April 2023, New York prosecutors announced a major investigation into two suspects accused of “repeated and serious violations.”[ing] We protect our nation's sovereignty by opening and operating a police station in the middle of New York City. ”
The Chinese government has repeatedly and vehemently denied evidence that it is persecuting dissidents abroad through the establishment of illegal police stations, and the facilities in question are used by Chinese nationals to renew their driver's licenses and other basic government services. It claims that it is a convenient post to help people with their problems.
