Transnational repression is a serious threat to human rights.
Over the past decade, the Citizen Lab has published numerous reports examining transnational repression (TNR) across the globe, focusing specifically on its digital forms.
In response to increasing accounts of foreign governments reaching across borders to harass and silence people in the United Kingdom, the UK’s Joint Committee on Human Rights launched an inquiry into transnational repression.
The Citizen Lab submitted written evidence to the inquiry that draws over ten years of research documenting and examining the methods, impacts, and geo-political landscape of TNR.
Our submission describes TNR’s impact on victims, identifies the biggest perpetrators of TNR in the UK, urges the British government to adopt a legal definition of TNR, and provides policy suggestions to better protect overseas dissidents from TNR.
Read the report from the UK Joint Committee on Human Rights.