An office registered as an estate agency in Hendon, NW London has been listed as the base for a Chinese ‘police station’ used to commit alleged human rights abuses.

Former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith has accused the Government of failing to close down the three ‘police stations’, which also include a restaurant in Glasgow and a second one in London.

Human rights campaign group Safeguard Defenders has produced a list of 110 bases in 30 different countries it says are used by the Chinese Government to pressurise individuals to return to China.

It is alleged that people or their families are threatened to persuade Chinese citizens to go home.

‘Wake up’

Duncan Smith says the Government should “wake up”. “[They] seem to be completely ignorant or deliberately obtuse as to what is going on.

“The biggest problem we face here… is the Foreign Office and the Treasury combined, are very resistant to any proactive activity taking place when it comes to China.

“They still wish that they could restore the process of an economic trade deal and a better relationship with China – and that is why you get this ‘hesitation’ from British politicians.”

He praised Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as she had called for an investigation into the alleged Chinese police station in Glasgow, and that she was “ahead actually of the UK Government who seem reluctant to do anything at the moment”.

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