Going Global: China’s Transnational Repression of Protesters Worldwide

As part of ARTICLE 19’s global #FreeToProtest campaign advancing the right to protest principles, this new report documents China’s systematic targeting of its critics through transnational repression. The most prolific perpetrator of such repression globally, China has resorted to harassment, violence, abduction, forced repatriation, surveillance, censorship, and retaliation against family members in China, among others, to silence protesters abroad. Building on research and almost thirty interviews with the diaspora from China, “including ethnic Han Chinese, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Kazakhs, and Mongolians, as well as Hong Kongers,” the report records incidents that took place in 2011-24 across Asia, Europe, and North America and offers recommendations to the Chinese authorities, host states, and tech companies.