For at least ten years, the Chinese Communist Party has been abducting its overseas citizens on EU territory and forcibly returning them to China - violating the rule of law and public security in Europe - a new report finds.
  • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
    71·
    2 months ago

    Asking under a threat of harm is no longer called persuasion, it’s a crime.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      83·
      2 months ago

      The link 404s for me, so I can’t really look at the details, but more information would be required to establish it as actually being criminal. Saying, and I’m just producing an arbitrary example, “Come here to attend a court case or you will be tried in abstentia (and therefore probably found guilty), which will result in fines that, if ignored, will be satisfied by asset forfeiture in the form of us seizing your shit” is consistent with your description of “asking under threat of harm” while also being an extremely normal thing for a country to do and not a crime.

      • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        There is an archived version, and I attached the full report to the post.

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          63·
          2 months ago

          The article is worthless, turns out, and looking at the report, it doesn’t really help because so many of its critical claims (i.e. actual, specific instances of collective punishment that weren’t countered by Chinese courts) just have citations to other reports by the same group. I’m just here to procrastinate on school work rather than read through a collective 500 pages of histrionics (seriously, the stylization of this whole thing is laughable).