Posted on 08/16/2021 6:07:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
We’ve all heard the stories about how China is making people disappear in their reeducation camps in the western reaches of their nation, particularly the Uyghurs. But are they engaged in similar tactics in other countries? That’s the claim being made by one Chinese woman who says that she was detained in a secret black site in Dubai for more than a week. The woman claims to have been held without access to legal counsel or the ability to contact her family. She also was reportedly forced to sign legal documents incriminating her own fiance’ who is still back in China. While there, she claims to have encountered two other prisoners, both Uyghurs. (Associated Press)
A young Chinese woman says she was held for eight days at a Chinese-run secret detention facility in Dubai along with at least two Uyghurs, in what may be the first evidence that China is operating a so-called “black site” beyond its borders.The woman, 26-year-old Wu Huan, was on the run to avoid extradition back to China because her fiancé was considered a Chinese dissident. Wu told The Associated Press she was abducted from a hotel in Dubai and detained by Chinese officials at a villa converted into a jail, where she saw or heard two other prisoners, both Uyghurs.
She was questioned and threatened in Chinese and forced to sign legal documents incriminating her fiancé for harassing her, she said. She was finally released on June 8 and is now seeking asylum in the Netherlands.
While the AP was unable to independently verify the woman’s story, it’s not an implausible tale at all. Such black sites show up in quite a few countries and Dubai prides itself on being “neutral ground” where anyone can go to hold discrete meetings. (The Taliban keeps a political office there where they meet with journalists and officials from other nations.) The country maintains a “no questions asked” policy in most cases, so if you were going to set up a secret prison to detain and deport people, that would be a likely choice.
While the AP was unable to independently verify the woman’s story, it’s not an implausible tale at all. Such black sites show up in quite a few countries and Dubai prides itself on being “neutral ground” where anyone can go to hold discrete meetings. (The Taliban keeps a political office there where they meet with journalists and officials from other nations.) The country maintains a “no questions asked” policy in most cases, so if you were going to set up a secret prison to detain and deport people, that would be a likely choice.
It wouldn’t surprise me if China had forty ‘black-prisons’ around the globe, and maybe even two or three in California.
You're probably right. I mean sure, the US border is porous in both directions.
But if they wanted to make someone disappear (for any one of the myriad of reasons tyrannical regimes do these kinds of things) the logistics would be a lot simpler to have a quiet little facility (or several) in-country. (ie. here) You'd want them in places where government officials were either complicit (ie. simply bought-off) or could be pressured to look the other way if/when the need arose. So of course CA, NYC, Chicago, heck even out in CO with the leftist wanna-bes.
It is likely there are several black sites scattered across the US. Not big, not noticeable. A small warehouse with a door big enough to pull a van or SUV inside and a few hundred square feet... Not residential, neighbors get curious. Not remote, activity stands out. Probably in light industrial use areas where no-one would take notice of semi-random comings and goings of work trucks and various personnel. Probably not used all the time. People would be detained, questioned, then disposed of...
The US uses overseas prisons to avoid legal scrutiny.
This is nothing new.
How about the one in DC holding political prisoners whose only crime was going to a rally.
It’s probably staffed by Erik Prince. He’s tight with the UAE, been building a mercenary army for them from battle-hardened troops from the southern coast of West Africa.
Wang and his fiancee, Wu Huan, 26, flew to the Netherlands, which does not have an extradition treaty with China. They are seeking asylum or at least a temporary stay visa.
Chinese officials had sought Wang Jingyu, a 19-year-old student, over his online comments about deadly border clashes between Chinese and Indian forces last year. He was arrested by plainclothes police in Dubai while transferring for a flight to the U.S. in early April and was held for weeks, in a case that the U.S. Department of State has described as a human rights concern. He said Chinese authorities in Dubai took away his green card.
Wang was freed May 27, just hours after The Associated Press asked about him. He fled first to Turkey and then to Ukraine, as a temporary safe place that was open to Chinese passport holders without COVID-19 entry restrictions.
Upon arrival at the Amsterdam airport, the couple was informed by Dutch immigration authorities that their passports had been cancelled, said Bob Fu, president of ChinaAid, who helped organize their escape from Ukraine.
https://thediplomat.com/2021/07/teen-with-us-ties-again-on-the-run-from-china-with-fiancee/
Bob Fu was a house church leader in Beijing until he and his wife, Heidi, were imprisoned for two months for “illegal evangelism” in 1996. Bob and Heidi fled to the United States as religious refugees in 1997 and subsequently founded ChinaAid in 2002 to bring international attention to China's gross human rights violations and to promote religious freedom and rule of law in China.
https://www.chinaaid.org/p/bob-fu.html
Here are paid protestors gathering outside of his home in October 2020:
I believe the Chinese held Jack Bauer in one such facility....
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