Chinese 'police' station in Dublin ordered to shut - BBC

A Chinese “police station" successful Dublin’s metropolis centre has been ordered to adjacent by the Irish authorities aft unit from a quality rights group.

The Fuzhou Police Service Overseas Station opened earlier this twelvemonth successful an bureau gathering connected the now-pedestrianised Capel Street which it shared with different Chinese organisations.

Fuzhou is simply a metropolis successful the state of Fujian.

The Chinese authorities said the presumption offered a work to Chinese citizens successful Ireland including the renewal of driving licenses.

However, the quality rights radical Safeguard Defenders successful a study successful September said the stations transportation 230,000 emigrants to instrumentality to China, sometimes to look transgression charges.  

The study besides said Chinese operations world-wide “eschew authoritative constabulary and judicial practice and interruption the planetary regularisation of law, and whitethorn interruption the territorial integrity of 3rd countries progressive successful mounting up a parallel policing mechanics utilizing amerciable methods.”

The Chinese embassy has denied immoderate wrong-doing successful Dublin.

On Wednesday, the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs said nary Chinese authorization had sought its support to acceptable up the “police station".

The section said it had raised the substance with the Chinese authorities and had asked them “to adjacent and cease operations” astatine the “police” presumption connected Capel Street.

The Chinese authorities said it had complied with that request.

The Chinese authorities has besides been accused of establishing at slightest 2 undeclared "police stations" successful the Netherlands.

Dutch media recovered grounds that the alleged overseas work stations, which committedness to supply diplomatic services, are being utilized to effort to soundlessness Chinese dissidents successful Europe.

A spokeswoman for the Dutch Foreign Ministry said the beingness of the unofficial constabulary outposts was illegal.

The Chinese overseas ministry has rejected the Dutch allegations.