Comment on China abducted its own citizens on EU territory, report finds
GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 7 months agoYour definition of abduction apparently includes persuading people to go somewhere, so I think there are many lacks in terms of definitions here.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Asking under a threat of harm is no longer called persuasion, it’s a crime.
GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 7 months ago
The link 404s for me, so I can’t really look at the details, but more information would be required to establish it as actually being criminal. Saying, and I’m just producing an arbitrary example, “Come here to attend a court case or you will be tried in abstentia (and therefore probably found guilty), which will result in fines that, if ignored, will be satisfied by asset forfeiture in the form of us seizing your shit” is consistent with your description of “asking under threat of harm” while also being an extremely normal thing for a country to do and not a crime.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
There is an archived version, and I attached the full report to the post.
GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 7 months ago
The article is worthless, turns out, and looking at the report, it doesn’t really help because so many of its critical claims (i.e. actual, specific instances of collective punishment that weren’t countered by Chinese courts) just have citations to other reports by the same group. I’m just here to procrastinate on school work rather than read through a collective 500 pages of histrionics (seriously, the stylization of this whole thing is laughable).