Some local authorities in China have tightened control of Chinese citizens’ foreign travel, including by confiscating their passports, Chinese residents told The Epoch Times.
The Chinese communist regime has in recent years required public servants to surrender their passports. Those restrictions have been expanded recently to affect Catholic clergy and other private citizens.
According to multiple residents of China’s southwest Guizhou province, Police officers or officials from subdistrict offices demanded “temporary” custody of residents’ passports, without citing the legal basis or clarifying when the documents would be returned.
“The police stations are collecting information via police officers or the subdistrict offices, on whether you have served any jail sentences or been on the list of dishonest persons,” Huang, a resident of Guiyang, Guizhou, told the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times….
Chinese Citizens Told to Surrender Passports
