Paris: Application of officials on China to join the Interpol government agency has raised alarm bells as experts, lawmakers from all over the world and activists are afraid that Beijing can use the organization of a crime battle to silence its criticism abroad, including members of the Uyghur community and other activists.
Hu Binchen, a representative general at the Chinese Public Security Ministry who oversees the police, is one of the list of candidates who stand for the election of the Interpol Executive Committee, to be decided by the General Assembly on November 23-25.
In a letter obtained by French publications “Liberation”, a group of parliamentarians from all over the world have called for the rejection of Hu Binchen’s nomination for the Executive Committee of the World Police Organization.
A total of fifty parliamentarians from the inter-parliamentary alliance in China (IPAC) have written to their home affairs, including Karen Andrews Australia, expressing alarms, saying Hu can use a position to target the enemies of China’s felt.
This development comes as a defense of Human Rights NGO Safeguard releasing its newest investigation which presents data on how China uses (and abusing) interpol tools such as red notifications.
Probe also saw rapid interpol expansion over the past two decades, which have seen the use of red notifications increased tenfold, and five-fold diffusion.
In addition, IPAC and activists who were exiled from China, Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang launched an appeal to the government to prevent HU Binchen’s election to the 13 Executive Committee of Interpol members.
NGO rights to his report said Hu Binchen was a police officer with the Ministry of Public Security (MPE) and worked specifically for his international cooperation department, who was very involved in the hunt for Fox China and Sky Net operations.
According to the report, this Chinese secret operation uses regular devices such as interpol and extradition to restore the alleged fugitive but also involved in forcing their return through threats to the family back in China, by sending agents abroad to operate illegally in foreign countries for foreign countries for Return “voluntarily”, and kidnapping.
“We ask you to oppose Hu Binchen’s nomination and to support efforts to reform the Interpol red notification system to protect victims of political abuse throughout the world,” signatories, mostly Europe but also Indians, Japan and America, all IPAC members.
“Allowing Interpol to be used as a vehicle for the repressive policy of the Chinese government strongly damages its international reputation,” confirms parliamentarians as quoted by French publications.