The Biden administration announced a sweeping set of actions to tackle a major Russian government-backed effort to influence the 2024 US presidential election on Wednesday, including…
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The events in San Francisco illustrate how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is willing to extend its intolerance of any dissent into the United States and target people exercising their First…
From 2014 to 2022, the democracy watchdog Freedom House recorded 854 incidents of transnational repression perpetrated by 38 governments across 91 countries.
China has stepped up efforts to intimidate and spy on its diaspora, as Beijing’s influence grows outside its borders. For more than six months, The Washington Post has been investigating a…
Chinese diplomats and pro-China diaspora groups based in the United States organized demonstrations in San Francisco that harassed and silenced protesters opposed to Beijing’s policies …
rpol notice system. As other governments have found, Interpol notices and difusions (see “Methods of Transnational Repression”) are low-cost means for the Kremlin to harass and detain exiles.183 The Kremlin’s targeting of financier Bill Browder through Interpol Red Notices has made the tool famous,184 but it uses the tactic to an …
The 31-year-old former US National Security Agency (NSA) employee parked several blocks away, walking to the train station with a laptop, a memory card, a gun and a note with handwritten …
Transnational repression by Russia refers to efforts by the Russian government to control its diaspora and exiles. This phenomenon targets former insiders and individuals perceived as threats to the government’s security.
The Russian government conducts highly aggressive transnational repression activities abroad. Its campaign, which heavily relies on assassination as a tool, targets former insiders and others who are perceived as threats to the regime’s security.
Freedom House’s first report on transnational repression, Out of Sight, Not Out of Reach, consisted of an introduction, a description of the methods of transnational repression, case studies on six states—China, Rwanda, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey—that have conducted significant transnational repression campaigns, and regional …