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The Citizen Lab has submitted an input on digital transnational repression to the OHCHR report on ‘Protecting Human Rights Defenders in the Digital Age’.

Citizen Lab researchers have co-authored two submissions to the Committee on Enforced Disappearances and UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances.  One submission focuses on digital tools that enable disappearances, calling on host states to protect against rights violations caused by digital transnational repression. The authors argue  that enforced disappearances have been facilitated by […]

On January 14, Citizen Lab senior researcher Marcus Michaelsen testified on transnational repression in a hearing of the Human Rights Committee in the German parliament (Bundestag).  In a submission to the committee, Michaelsen highlights how transnational repression increasingly affects people in exile and diaspora communities in democratic countries like Germany, undermining their human rights and […]

What’s stopping diaspora members from speaking up against the government in their home country? In an interview with the Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF), Citizen Lab senior researcher Marcus Michaelsen discusses digital transnational repression (DTR) and its impacts on diasporas worldwide.  Read the interview.