On July 7, a U.S. grand jury indicted five men for crimes connected to a Chinese government plot aimed at silencing dissidents living in the United States. While three of the men were originally ...

On March 16, a bipartisan group of United States senators introduced the Transnational Repression Policy Act, which aims “to hold foreign governments and individuals accountable when they stalk, ...

This report finds that the scale of transnational repression in the Uyghur diaspora is universal, and its impact severely restricts their rights to free speech and associations, and the capacity to ...

It has been five years since the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and not much has changed. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is believed to have ordered his brutal killing ...

The bill is poised to help a wide range of U.S. citizens contending with threats from the governments of India, Saudi Arabia, Iran, China, and other regimes. The Indian government’s overseas ...

Governments in more than two dozen countries are using threats, attacks and legal action to retaliate against journalists and critics who fled overseas, a new report has found. At a time when ...

Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko denied Monday that state repression exists in Belarus, while answering questions from local and foreign media. He also invited members of the public to ask ...

Rally "for a free Russia without repression and despotism" Moscow, June 10 2018. Credit: Don Simon via Wikimedia Commons. CC0. From Bull Connor’s dogs and fire hoses attacking U.S. civil rights ...

Authoritarian governments have long sought to target dissidents abroad. But the digital age may have given them stronger motives, and better tools, for transnational repression. By Amanda Taub ...

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, an information war is raging alongside the physical fighting. Russia’s attempts to spread disinformation have not yet found great success in the West. Within ...