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Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Italy home to 11 of 100-plus unofficial Chinese ‘police stations’

Chinese new year in Milan
Italy’s first ‘unofficial police station’ was set up in Milan in 2016. Photograph: Piero Cruciatti/AFP/Getty Images

Italy hosts the highest number of unofficial Chinese “police stations” out of a network of more than 100 around the world, a report by a Spanish civil rights group has claimed.

The northern Italian city of Milan was allegedly used by two local Chinese public security authorities as a European testing ground for a policing strategy to monitor the Chinese population abroad and force dissidents to return home.

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