{"id":168001,"date":"2024-05-16T12:23:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T10:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=168001"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:20","slug":"amnesty-chinese-government-intimidates-students-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2024\/05\/16\/amnesty-chinese-government-intimidates-students-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty: Chinese government intimidates students abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese students in Europe and North America are monitored and intimidated by their home country, reports Amnesty International, which also interviewed Chinese students in the Netherlands. \u201cThey\u2019re living in fear.\u201d<\/p>\n

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China\u2019s long arm in the Netherlands has made the news on several occasions. Members of Chinese student associations in the Netherlands check<\/a> whether other members are too critical of their home country. In 2021, RTL Nieuws and Follow the Money revealed<\/a> the existence of illegal Chinese \u2018police stations\u2019 in Rotterdam and Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

Eight countries<\/h2>

Last year was the first time Amnesty International conducted an investigation<\/a> in eight countries into the ways in which Chinese students are confronted with their home country\u2019s censorship. The human rights organisation interviewed 34 students and recent graduates from China and Hong Kong who are living in the United States, Canada, Belgium, Germany, France, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

They tell Amnesty that they are being followed online, both by the regime and by their fellow students. One in three students also says their family was approached by Chinese authorities. This involves threats of dismissal or of revoking passports or PhDs if the students express criticism.<\/p>\n\n\t

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