The Department of Justice has been conducting” international suppression” by US adversaries like China and Iran to terrify political opponents living in the country.
China’s embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment on Chen’s appeal.
There are centers outside China work by local volunteers, no Chinese police officers, that aim to assist Chinese citizens with renewing their documents and providing additional services, according to the Chinese government. Beijing has accused Washington of inventing the allegations to denigrate China.
According to prosecutors, Lu and Chen are US residents who founded a nonprofit organization whose main goal is to provide a social meeting place for residents of Chinese province in China.
The people’s New York function occupied a whole floor in a bland Chinatown building close to the Manhattan Bridge before it closed in the fall of 2022.
Prosecutors claimed that the website was being used for commonplace government purposes, such as assisting some Chinese citizens with driver’s license renewal, which they claimed should have been made public.
However, prosecutors also claimed that Beijing asked Lu to find an individual who lived in California and was regarded as a pro-democracy advocate in 2022. According to lawyers, Lu allegedly sought to persuade an individual who was viewed as a criminal by China to go back home in 2018.  ,