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Dec 13, 2023 - Director William Oldroyd’s newest film feels as if it was a vintage VHS tape plucked out of the corner of an antique shop, evoking a cold environment of...

Dec 9, 2025 - Before ICE descended on New Orleans, GOP lawmakers made it a crime to interfere with immigration enforcement.

Oct 24, 2024 - On July 9, 2024, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), along with the Kurdistan Human Rights Association Geneva (KMMK-G), submitted a

Dec 17, 2024 - Eine außergewöhnliche Ausstellung in Leipzig über den rebellischen Geist der Punkbewegung.

The latest from Freedom House on how human rights activists, dissidents, and their families face a worldwide pattern of violence and intimidation perpetrated...

Despite recent prisoner releases, the extreme crackdown on Belarusian civil society continues ahead of the country's presidential election.

Nov 24, 2025 - Observatorium 87 | November 2025 | An essay by John McManus on the current civil society struggle in Turkey.

Jan 18, 2026 - The death toll continues to climb as the Iranian theocracy unleashes its security troops and militias against civilian demonstrators.

The Australian government has shown awareness of transnational repression and conducted outreach to diaspora communities, but the country’s legislative and...

Teacher Li is not your teacher has become a household name for many in the China-watcher space. Having risen to prominence during the White Paper movement in...

Речь идёт о гражданах Беларуси, которые жили в Украине, когда началось полномасштабное...

Video - August 15, 2021, marked the Taliban's return to power with the capture of Kabul, plunging the country into a deep humanitarian crisis where women have...

China conducts the most sophisticated, global, and comprehensive campaign of transnational repression in the world. Efforts by the Chinese Communist Party to...

International action critical for accountability for “709” crackdown, other violations

Jun 5, 2025 - Are countries such as Switzerland doing enough to protect its people from transnational repression by China?

Jun 6, 2025 - Members of Parliament have called on the newly elected government to enforce a law against transnational repression following reports of Chinese authorities...

Oct 23, 2025 - On 16 October 2025 International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and partners hosted the side event “Repression Without Borders? Confronting...

Transnational repression threatens security and human rights. The more we know about who is committing it and how, the better we can fight to end it.

Jun 29, 2015

Oct 2, 2025 - Dossier 31 Political Repression in South Africa In his famous speech from the dock in April 1964, Nelson Mandela spoke of ‘revolutionary democracy’ rooted...

Legal Empowerment Efforts: Fighting Repression, Deepening Democracy

The sweeping indictment of Stop Cop City activists reveals the new playbook for state suppression of protest. But we can still win.

Nicolas Maduro's misrule was so chronically disastrous, seven million Venezuelans fled - but as the economy failed and the US Navy advanced, he danced,...

Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) has been implicated in a decade-long pattern of killings, arbitrary detentions, torture and sexual violence...

People who have escaped from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic have described the...

Oct 31, 2025 - Authoritarian regimes are targeting exiles and diaspora communities in more places than ever before. Activists, journalists, and regular people living...

Ungefähr dort, wo der amerikanische Autokonzern Tesla in Brandenburg einen Produktionsort errichten will, existierte früher eine umfangreiche „Zentrale...

The region, in concert with the international community, must act now to help end abhorrent abuses by Zimbabwe’s government.

Safeguard Defenders is today releasing its pilot reporting guide for targets of Chinese transnational repression. The pilot guide – a precursor to an...

Sep 2, 2025 - In this interview, Zumretay Arkin describes how China carries out transnational repression against Uyghur activists through digital surveillance.

A Zamaneh Media and Newsgain Report in Cooperation with Radio Tamazuj and Radio Dabanga

Jan 22, 2026 - The protests in Iran are about more than economic desperation or political reform. When inequality and repression intersect, modern slavery takes root.

Dec 26, 2025 - The right wants the teaching of history to no longer indict power or inspire resistance. But our side won’t submit.

The two countries should build on recent progress by coordinating cross-agency efforts and strengthening resilience among targeted diaspora communities.

China’s determination to silence journalists is the culmination of an authoritarian project that models a new level of global repression combining...

Dec 2, 2025 - Lawmakers from across the political spectrum condemned Beijing’s “scary” tactics and said European governments should do more to protect dissidents.

Jan 4, 2026 - The presence of police and military personnel across Caracas on Sunday was notable for its smaller size compared with an average day.

Dec 3, 2024 - Building upon our prior research and the contributions of other scholars to this field, the aim of this novel study is to understand the security risks and...

Gerade hat der zweite Prozess gegen die sogenannte Antifa-Ost begonnen. Während Faschist*innen mit Milde rechnen können, werden Antifas überproportional...

Oct 30, 2024 - The strongman lost in a landslide, and the Venezuelan people are paying the price.

Aug 6, 2025 - The hope was that President Hakainde Hichilema would bring much-needed reform and openness. Instead, he has ushered in new laws that are silencing dissent...

Mar 31, 2025 - A group of Russian exiles thought they would find freedom in Georgia. They were wrong.

Feb 4, 2026 - Civilians in Sudan, South Suda,n and Ethiopia are bearing the brunt of abusive armed conflicts in which the warring parties frequently and often deliberately...

Several organisations expressed deep concern about the escalation of violence, repression and militarisation by the Ecuadorian State against the social...

Nov 9, 2023 - Watch and read an interview with the Palestinian freedom fighter Leila Khaled

Jul 6, 2025 - How ICIJ’s data-driven methodology underpins our investigation that exposed China’s global repression campaign.

Apr 25, 2021 - by Michel Comte During the decade they lived in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, Canadians Gary and Andrea Dyck had a front-row seat to Beijing’s...

During Venezuela’s electoral period—from the start of the campaign on July 4, 2024, through election day on July 28, and extending to the inauguration on...

Jan 15, 2026 - Moscow is providing the military equipment and internet technology that Tehran is deploying against protesters.

Being mindful of negative emotions can grant you the freedom to choose how you respond to chronic illness and life.

A statement from Samidoun Belgium Upon receiving refugee status in Belgium, Husam has finally been freed. Arrested on 29th of September after the daily protest...

Feb 18, 2026 - Dilnur Reyhan writes on how China’s transnational repression of the Uyghur diaspora is unfolding on French soil Dilnur Reyhan A few days before the offi

Nov 28, 2025 - Repression is intensifying inside Venezuela, says human rights group and opposition figures, as President Nicolás Maduro faces growing isolation abroad amid...

Nov 2, 2025 - Faculty are forming support networks to connect with each other to protect students and end the genocide in Palestine.

The standard practice that the government has adopted towards anyone who questions government policy by labelling them a ‘terrorist’ and...

Sep 26, 2025 - Repression of academic freedom continues to spread around the country after a professor in Texas was fired without due process for a speech given at a virtual...

Nov 21, 2025 - Our organizations express their strongest condemnation following the conviction, on October 31, 2025, of Tunisian lawyer and former magistrate Ah

Sep 25, 2025 - Miaan's Executive Director Mani Mostofi will be part of a timely conversation on how Iranian civil society are navigating the tensions of war, regional...

In the second semester of my first year of full-time teaching as a “newly minted Ph.D.,” I stood before my class rehashing […]

Sep 11, 2025 - Next week, civil society organisations host the third annual Activist Symposium under the theme “Navigating activism in an anti-human rights era”. From 16

Feb 17, 2026 - Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, its media has experienced an unprecedented crackdown. Hundreds of journalists have been forced into...

Nov 7, 2025 - 1. Executive Summary This report by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) documents how legal, regulatory and informal measures in Jordan restrict the work...

A statement for the record from Freedom House for the Congressional-Executive Commission on China's hearing on Transnational Repression.

Transnational repression is a serious threat to human rights, democratic institutions, and state sovereignty, as well as a disturbing manifestation of global...

Dec 2, 2025 - In the wake of ICIJ’s China Targets investigation, European officials said governments should step up measures to stop state-sponsored harassment of...

Sexual repression can cause discomfort around sex. Learn about repressed sexuality, including the signs, causes, effects, and treatment options for this...

Photo: © UN OHCHR/2025 12 February 2025

Oct 29, 2024 - As universities crack down, academics must not let pro-Israel McCarthyism silence our public voices.

Democratic governments should not be fooled by Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s recent attempts to curry favor with the United States. Lukashenka must be held...

Jul 29, 2017 - Repress or suppress? What is the difference between suppression and suppression? Learn how to use these words with definition and sentence examples.

Oct 30, 2025 - The country heads to the polls in an increasingly authoritarian political environment.

Jun 20, 2025 - Die iranische Zivilgesellschaft, die sich dem Mullahregime widersetzt, will nicht durch israelische Bomben „befreit“ werden.

Aug 28, 2025 - Official website of Steve Feldstein, author of the new book 'Bytes and Bullets' and 'The Rise of Digital Repression'. He is a senior fellow...

Repression is an unconscious defense mechanism that your brain uses to block out difficult or traumatic memories, emotions, and thoughts.

Grassroots justice workers around the world are strategizing how to not only defend but deepen democratic governance.

Nov 26, 2025 - Women defenders in Cuba face gender-based violence for speaking out. Demand that the Cuban government respect their human rights.

Jun 13, 2023 - Home PEN America Condemns Transnational Repression of Chinese Political Cartoonist Badiucao in Poland PEN America Condemns Transnational Repression of

Dec 9, 2025

Jun 4, 2025 - On June 9, join the Citizen Lab’s Emile Dirks to discuss China’s influence, interference, and repression in Canada.

Jan 14, 2026 - Who they are, how they operate and what role they play in repressing the protests in Iran

Aug 13, 2021 - Governments across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) displayed a chilling determination to crush protests with ruthless force and trample over the rights...

Oct 29, 2024 - Since 2002, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has engaged in an unparalleled campaign of transnational repression as part of its efforts to coerce and...

Aug 21, 2025 - Just months after ICIJ’s China Targets investigation, the country has confirmed that countering foreign influence is an “utmost priority” for the...

The sixth annual International Religious Freedom Summit opened Monday, Feb. 2, in Washington, D.C., with a call to intensify global advocacy for freedom of...

Jan 5, 2026 - Amnesty International on Monday accused Ugandan security agencies of torturing and arbitrarily detaining opposition supporters in...

Oct 22, 2025 - From New Orleans to Palestine, colonized people confront settler regimes and resettlement projects that dispossess native spaces.

May 13, 2021 - The United States, Britain and Germany called Wednesday on China to end its repression of the Uyghur minority, speaking out at a video conference that...

Dec 2, 2025 - Interviews with more than 100 victims in 23 countries, along with internal government documents, reveal the sinister tactics China uses to silence critics...

Diaspora communities say a security-focused response to foreign intimidation misses their basic rights concerns.

Oct 30, 2025 - Indbyggerne i en tysk koloni i Chile har en mørk fortid med vold og seksuelle overgreb til fælles, men reagerer vidt forskelligt, når de konfronteres med...

Sep 30, 2025 - On 11 September 2025, the Ministry of Information in Oman issued the Executive Regulations for the Media Law pursuant to Ministerial Resolution No. (65) of...

The British government has worked to address the most acute threats, but an effective response will require consistent accountability measures for perpetrators...

The International Trade Union Confederation’s (ITUC) 2025 Global Rights Index was released on 2 June. The report presents a sobering picture of escalating...

Dec 4, 2025

Jan 5, 2026 - Saudi authorities are imprisoning people and even sentencing them to death for expressing their critical views.

Nov 28, 2025 - Whether a 14-year-old protester or an anti-war artist, anyone deemed critical of Putin's regime can be locked up for years in Russia. A new film follows...

Calling upon democratic governments to acknowledge and commit to addressing the increasingly prevalent phenomenon of transnational repression.

Mar 29, 2025 - Die Piratenpartei lehnt den repressiven 7-Punkte-Plan der hessischen Landesregierung ab. Statt Verdrängung fordert sie Hilfe, Prävention und...

Nov 28, 2025 - Wer den Kreml oder den Krieg gegen die Ukraine kritisiert, der gilt in Moskau als Staatsfeind. Eine Dokumentation erzählt vom Leiden politischer ...