China’s transnational crackdown targets activists abroad: Article 19 Report

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London [UK], June 13 (ANI): The Chinese government’s expanding campaign of transnational repression against demonstrators and activists residing abroad has been made public in a new report by the UK-based human rights organisation Article 19. The research, titled “Going Global: China’s Transnational Repression of Protesters Worldwide," describes how Beijing routinely uses digital manipulation, intimidation, monitoring, and threats against family members within China to silence dissenting voices outside of its boundaries.

The research describes cases from 2011 to 2024 in 12 countries, based on comprehensive desk research and in-depth interviews with 29 exiled activists from Uyghur, Tibetan, Hong Kong, and Chinese dissident communities. These are democracies with legal protections for free speech in Asia, North America, and Europe. Citing Freedom House data that links Chinese state entities to roughly 30% of worldwide transnational repression instances since 2014, the research h...

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