HotznplotznMan detained in Sweden on suspicion of spying on Uyghurs for China
What do they want to do with Uyghurs in Sweden?
Perhaps check if they talk about the situation in China, make life harder for them in Sweden and their family back in China, abduct them from Sweden back to China. Many aspects to think about.
That’s sxary to even think about. Not being safe from an evil country an entire continent away đŸ˜°
Indeed.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) conducts the most sophisticated and comprehensive campaign of transnational repression among all countries on the globe, pressuring Chinese diaspora overseas, e.g., members of ethnic and religious minorities, political dissidents, human rights activists, journalists (and often simply the family members of these people in sort of collective punishment) by using direct attacks like renditions, to co-opting other countries to detain and render exiles, to mobility controls, to threats from a distance like digital threats, spyware, coercion.
For example, in a new study published in February 2025, the rights group Freedom House has documented 1,219 incidents of transnational repression carried out by 48 governments across 103 countries between 2014 to 2024. A smaller number of countries account for the vast majority of all documented physical attacks on dissidents, with China the most frequent offender, responsible for 272 incidents, or 22% of recorded cases (Russia, Turkey and Egypt also rank among the worst perpetrators).
A good source for this and similar issues is also safeguarddefenders.com.
Man, people like this are just so infuriating and pathetic. Imagine leaving your dictatorial country to a democracy just to ruin it for people there.
huppakeeI don’t think these kind of spies leave their dictorial country and then afterwards decide to ruin it for others. Much more likely they left their country with the goal of tracking ‘dissidents’ already or they were pressured into doing this. Happens more often that a regime threaten or actually torture left behind family to get people far away to do what they (the regime) wants them to do.
I know someone from Taiwan who lives and works here in the Netherlands and she told me how she and friends of her from time to time get intimidating messages and once someone even following her and she says it’s the Chinese government looking for Chinese (and Taiwanese) people publically speaking out about the situation of Taiwan or any other negative thing about China. I read and heard about this years ago but to be confirmed that Chinese (and Taiwanese) citizens are only safe in the west if they behave well. I am not surprised they also keep tabs on Uyghurs.
I once got in an argument on an hexbear post and a bunch of people made fun of me for ‘still believing in that stupid story about the Uyghurs’ posting links about all of that is a conspiracy theory and trying to give sources of how happy the Uyghurs actually are. Don’t forget there are more Chinese than Americans + Europeans, they have the money and the numbers to ‘police’ their citizens and parts of the internet.
dumblederpTibetans too.