A new report documents hundreds of cases of international harassment by the People's Republic of China (PRC) against Taiwanese nationals, including deportations and extraditions.
Safeguard Defenders' research provides the most comprehensive depiction of this disturbing trend to far. "This international persecution of Taiwanese nationals is an attack on Taiwanese sovereignty, and it is part of Xi Jinping's larger global campaign to use extradition treaties, mutual law enforcement agreements, and other multilateral institutions to further the Chinese Communist Party's political goals," it said.
China has increasingly demonstrated that it has little regard for the rule of law and will disregard international conventions in the pursuit of its adversaries around the world. China is chasing economic fugitives, Uyghur exiles, human rights campaigners, and fleeing Hong Kongers through transnational repression and formal extraditions. Hundreds of Taiwanese nationals have been detained and forcibly extradited to mainland China from all around the world, according to the report, although they have garnered significantly less attention to yet.
Extradition and human rights norms put forth precise guidelines for authorised extraditions as well as grounds for automatic denial. The concept of non-refoulement, which basically states that no government should send someone to another country where they are at risk of persecution or grave human rights violations, is at the heart of these international principles.
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