A New York resident who prosecutors say operated a "secret police station" in the Chinatown district of Manhattan to aid Beijing's targeting of dissidents, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent.

Chen Jinping used the office in Lower Manhattan to quash dissent against the Chinese government. The Justice Department is fighting Beijing’s efforts to wield its influence secretly.

A Manhattan resident has pleaded guilty to helping establish a secret police station in New York City on behalf of the Chinese government.

A New York man faces a sentence of five years in federal prison after pleading guilty in connection with a "Chinese police station" in Manhattan used to intimidate and harass Chinese residents critical of communist rule.

A 60-year-old man pleaded guilty on Wednesday for his role in running a clandestine Chinese "police station" in New York as part of a campaign to monitor and harass US-based dissidents.But in fact their main job was to help track down and harass fugitive Chinese dissidents,

An American citizen has pleaded guilty to helping run what has been described as the first known secret police station in the US on behalf of the Chinese government. Prosecutors say Chen Jinping and his co-defendent Lu Jianwang opened and operated the station in Manhattan's Chinatown neighbourhood in early 2022 on behalf of China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS).