FBI briefing details transnational repression cases and urges exiles to report threats At an FBI briefing, officials described a pattern of foreign governments targeting exiled dissidents in the U.S., recounting cases of alleged Chinese campaign interference and an alleged Iranian kidnapping plot, and urged victims to contact law enforcement; the FBI highlighted multilingual resources and protective steps.

The FBI reveals chilling cases of foreign governments targeting exiled dissidents in the U.S., including a shocking kidnapping plot and election interference.

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#US #NewYorkExiles #CitizenPortal #SafetyResources #HumanRightsViolations #TransnationalRepression

5/5 Stay tuned! We'll be sharing more from the panelists directly on what governments and institutions can do to counter this growing threat.

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#transnationalrepression #TNR #pressfreedom #JHR #JournalistsforHumanRights

1/5 BERLIN: On Apr 1, JHR hosted an urgent conversation on #transnationalrepression w the Canadian Embassy in Germany & @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social's @dfrlab.bsky.social.

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Stanford student tells House panel she was targeted by suspected Chinese agent, urges campus reporting mechanisms A Stanford undergraduate told the House committee she was targeted by an account that offered travel and pressured her to remove records; she said the FBI confirmed likely foreign intelligence involvement and that her university lacked a dedicated reporting channel for students facing transnational repression.

A Stanford student revealed chilling details about being targeted by a suspected Chinese agent, raising urgent questions about campus safety and support for victims of foreign harassment.

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#US #StanfordUniversity #CitizenPortal #TransnationalRepression #StudentSafety

A new report prepared by Oxford Pro Bono Publico for ISHR shows that, though UN and regional human rights systems increasingly recognise #transnationalrepression of human rights defenders, States still lack clear, binding obligations to prevent and address it:

Transnational Repression The latest from Freedom House on how human rights activists, dissidents, and their families face a worldwide pattern of violence and intimidation perpetrated by the authoritarian regimes they hoped to...

On April 16, Freedom House will release brand new data on #transnationalrepression. Our comprehensive dataset includes over a thousand incidents that have happened around the world between 2014 and 2025.

Read more about our work on transnational repression: freedomhouse.org/report/trans...

雪域智悲成就者----红格尔多吉仁波切的肺腑之言 【译】 从游牧孩童到寺院住持，从果洛高原到世界各地，他始终以慈悲为怀、以信仰为灯。这不仅是一位藏传佛教上师的生命回顾，更是一封写给人类良知的心灵信札，愿读到的人，感受到温暖、勇气与希望。仁波切虽于流亡中蒙冤离世，但他以慈悲立身、以信仰行道的足迹，将持续照耀无数人的心灵。

The case of Tulku Hungkar Dorje deserves wider attention.
This article includes a Chinese translation, helping Chinese-speaking audiences access information about his life and work. chineseyouthstandfortibet.substack.com/p/tulku-hung...

#华语青年挺藏会 #transnationalrepression

A Year On, Vietnam and China Must Account for Tulku Hungkar Dorje’s Death  | TCHRD

#Tibetan lama Hungkar Dorje Rinpoche died in #Vietnam in March 2025 after reportedly fleeing Tibet and being detained there.

The circumstances of his death remain unclear, and #Tibetans are calling for an independent investigation tchrd.org/2026/03/27/a... #transnationalrepression

Hong Kong dissidents fear China’s hand in campaign of int... British-based activists reveal a rise in violence and harassment – and say police are ignoring their concerns

Observer investigation: #HongKong dissidents in the UK say they face intimidation, #surveillance, harassment and attacks linked to Beijing’s #transnationalrepression, and many say police have failed to protect them. observer.co.uk/news/interna...

The PRC’s Extraterritorial Legal Architecture: Long-arm Jurisdiction as an Instrument of Transnational Repression and Statecraft — China Strategic Risks Institute Executive Summary This report was prepared by the China Strategic Risks Institute as part of its ongoing research on the intersection of law, governance, and the rise of authoritarianism. It exami...

@samagoodman.bsky.social / CSRI’s Jan 2026 report says the PRC has built a legal architecture that extends into data, finance, sanctions, and security: turning ordinary laws into tools of #transnationalrepression & state power:

www.csri.global/research/chi...

‘They can reach me wherever’: China using financial tactics to coerce people who flee, says report UK urged to tackle transnational repression, as dissidents say Beijing has targeted them with tax bills and other threats

China is expanding #transnationalrepression beyond #surveillance and threats, using tax claims, pension restrictions, and financial coercion against #HongKong dissidents overseas. UK-based exiles say the pressure follows them even after they flee.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Representative Thinlay Chukki Participates in Prague Conference Condemning Sinicization of Tibet, Highlights Ongoing Challenges – Central Tibetan Administration Prague, 25 March 2026: A conference on “The Sinicization of Tibet,” was organised by Member of Parliament Helena Langšádlová in cooperation with the Sinopsis Project and the Oriental Institute of the ...

Representative Thinlay Chukki joined a #Prague conference on the #Sinicisation of #Tibet, warning of ongoing repression inside Tibet & #transnationalrepression targeting #Tibetans in Europe. The event was organised with @sinopsis.cz and Czech academic partners: tibet.net/representati...

‘They can reach me wherever’: China using financial tactics to coerce people who flee, says report UK urged to tackle transnational repression, as dissidents say Beijing has targeted them with tax bills and other threats

“I didn’t feel safe… the regime can reach me wherever I am.”
Christopher Mung, HKLRM’s Executive Director reveals #HongKong authorities hit him with retroactive tax bills for a business he never had — a tactic of “weaponising revenue department”.
It’s #TransnationalRepression.
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Citizen Lab’s unique vantage point on #transnationalrepression comes from combining deep technical research on spyware and #surveillance with long-term engagement with targeted diaspora communities (initially #Tibetans), revealing both the methods *and* impacts of digital repression:

“དྲ་རྒྱའི་ཁྲིམས་འདིས་བོད་ཀྱི་ཕྱི་ལ་ཡོད་པའི་ཉེ་འབྲེལ་ཚོར་ཡང་ཉེན་ཁ་བཟོ་གཞི་ཆཊ་ཡོད།" དྲ་རྒྱའི་ཁྲིམས་འདི་གཏན་འབེབས་བྱེད་ན། ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་དུ་ཡོད་པའི་བོད་པ་ཉེ་འབྲེལཚོར་ཡང་ཉེས་ཆད་འགེལ་སྲིད་པ་རེད་གསུངས་བྱུང་།

China’s proposed cybercrime law could reach far beyond its borders, targeting #Tibetans & critics abroad for online speech.

Experts warn it may expand #transnationalrepression, blurring the line between “cybercrime” and dissent, and chilling free expression globally. www.rfa.org/tibetan/sarg...

Behind every IP address in the #i-Soon files is a community: #Tibetan civil servants, diaspora activists, the Private Office of the Dalai Lama: whose emails were compromised, mapped, & sold to China's security services.

Our full report: turquoiseroof.org/spyware-as-a... #transnationalrepression

中國鎮壓陰影，籠罩海外流亡維吾爾人 今年齋月，當我端起熱騰騰的扁豆湯和剛做好的維吾爾麵條準備開齋時，我必須努力不去想那遠在千里外、身陷黑獄的父親，不去想他沒法吃到什麼東西，或他是否還記得這是一年當中他最喜愛的時光。

中國鎮壓陰影，籠罩海外流亡維吾爾人 @yalkun.bsky.social / @hrwchinese.bsky.social

www.hrw.org/zh-hant/news... #transnationalrepression #Uyghur

FLAME OF FREEDOM: Stand with Hong Kong's Narayan Liu argues that Europe must tackle #TransnationalRepression stemming from #HongKong if the bloc's bid to be more assertive and sovereign is to succeed.

🔥thecfhk.org/hong-kong-a-pivotal-test...

Transnational Information Suppression (silencing critical voices outside #China) is flagged as a 'key concern' of Chinese #FIMI.

Targets include #diaspora individuals and their families. It straddles FIMI & human rights/ #transnationalrepression against #Tibetans #Uyghurs & #HongKong
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The #Bluesky example involves a video using a #dissident's identity to falsely accuse the Spanish government and the respected NGO @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social of corruption.

#Spamouflage uses AI to make such impersonations more convincing. (EEAS) [p.34] #transnationalrepression

The new old: Spamouflage content creationThe IMS Spamouflage consists of newly created, repurposed,or hijacked53 social media accounts that post and amplifystate messaging across more than 50 platforms54, engagingalmost exclusively with other Spamouflage content. In2025, Spamouflage perfectioned a new attack pattern: theuse of AI-assisted impersonation videos. This buildson its previous creation of poorly edited pictures andis specifically employed to degrade dissidents anddiscredit opposition voices.Spamouflage appears to use AI to produce more content.Its accounts frequently share AI-generated cartoons builtaround similar narratives, allowing them to quickly generatelarge amounts of tailored material targeting specific actorsor issues.Even if overall engagement remains low, the repeatedposting of varied content creates the impression thatthese views are widely shared. For example, this techniquewas used to target both the EU and the US, with at least50 AI-generated cartoons portraying the EU as subordinateto the US.Spamouflage has also used AI to refine its impersonationtactics and vary its attacks. The IMS manipulated videosusing AI tools to imitate opposing voices. This marks a stepbeyond its earlier use of poorly edited images targetingindividuals.

EEAS: In 2025, #Spamouflage perfected a new attack pattern: the use of #AI-assisted impersonation videos. This builds on its previous creation of poorly edited pictures and is specifically employed to degrade dissidents and discredit opposition voices. #transnationalrepression

Documented Toxic Exposure: August 2025 Laboratory Findings Luxembourg

August 2025 lab results document elevated carboxyhemoglobin and a substantial decline in cholinesterase enzyme activity over two days. Specialized forensic toxicological analysis has been requested. #TransnationalRepression #HumanRights
#PMSC

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Vietnamese Anti-Corruption Activist Detained in Bangkok Amid Alleged Transnational Repression Thai authorities are facing international pressure to release Vietnamese anti-corruption activist Le Chi Thanh, who has been detained in Bangkok’s Suan Phlu Immigration Detention Centre since 6 March 2026. Human rights organizations warn that deporting him to Vietnam could expose him to torture, arbitrary detention, and an unfair trial. Le Chi Thanh, 43, a former Vietnamese police officer and prominent anti-corruption campaigner, was arrested at his home in Pathum Thani province after Vietnamese authorities revoked his passport, which also contained his Thai visa.

Thai authorities are facing international scrutiny after detaining Vietnamese anti-corruption activist Le Chi Thanh, with human rights groups warning that deporting him to Vietnam could put him at serious risk of torture and persecution.

#Thailand #Vietnam #TransnationalRepression

Man and woman charged with murder of Iranian activist in Canada Charges follow discovery of body of Masood Masjoody, who was a critic of the Tehran regime and the exiled shah

"Two people have been charged with the murder of an Iranian activist in Canada, in a case which has intensified fears over #transnationalrepression of critics of the regime in Tehran." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

USCIRF Urges “Country of Particular Concern” Designation for India Amid Escalating Religious Freedom Violations and Transnational Repression - RMN News USCIRF Urges "Country of Particular Concern" Designation for India Amid Escalating Religious Freedom Violations and Transnational Repression USCIRF documented a surge in vigilante attacks by Hindu nat...

🚨 BREAKING: USCIRF is officially recommending that the U.S. Department of State designate India as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) for 2026.

#India #ReligiousFreedom #HumanRights #USCIRF #CPC #TransnationalRepression #GlobalNews #RMNNews 🇮🇳⚖️📢

RMN News: rmnnews.com/2026/03/17/u...

Joint Statement from Civil Society Groups Requesting Transnational Repression Policy Act Markup - Uyghur Human Rights Project March 16, 2026 The following is a joint statement, led by Freedom House and supported by UHRP and 30+ other diaspora, human rights, faith-based, and civil society organizations, calling upon the House...

UHRP is glad to join 30+ organizations (coordinated by
@freedomhouse.bsky.social) urging US lawmakers to advance the #TransnationalRepression Policy Act (H.R. 4829/S.2525)

Congress must act to protect diaspora communities from authoritarian govts.

Read the joint letter:
uhrp.org/statement/jo...

Palantir to Pegasus: How states use spyware against women Digital tech is being used to intimidate women activists beyond national borders. It’s called gender-based digital transnational repression. Here’s what you should know

Authoritarian states use #gender based digital #transnationalrepression to silence outspoken women in diaspora communities. Citizen Lab Senior researcher @noura.bsky.social spoke with @fullerproject.org about how it affects victims:

www.fullerproject.org/editions/rev...

“Now the Chinese government is demanding this ideological uniformity not only within its territory but also abroad,” said @Yalkun.bsky.social of Human Rights Watch. “That is what you call #transnationalrepression.”

The law also empowers authorities to pursue people or groups, even abroad, accused of undermining national unity.

#transnationalrepression

#transnationalorganizedcrime #transnationalrepression