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Transnational repression

July 2024

  • The emblem of Saudi Arabia – a palm tree above two crossed swords – on the pediment of its embassy in London, with a blurred fence in the foreground

    Rights and freedom
    UK ‘turning a blind eye’ to threats to kill Saudi activists living in exile

  • A dark-haired young man in a suit jacket poses on a sofa

    Rights and freedom
    Iranian TV presenter stabbed in London moves abroad for safety

March 2024

  • Chinese people at a protest march outside the Chinese embassy in London

    Rights and freedom
    Threats, fear and surveillance: how Beijing targets students in the UK who criticise regime

    Chinese students tell the Guardian they are scared to return home and worry for their families after being followed and harassed

February 2024

  • A man with wearing a mask with the Kökbayraq (East Turkestan) flag painted on it, with a hand painted over the mouth with China's flag on it.

    Rights and freedom
    China, Russia and Cambodia top list of regimes targeting critics in exile

  • Members of the Tibetan Youth Congress carry the Tibetan flag at a protest in Delhi, India.

    Rights and freedom
    Beijing accused of using spying, threats and blackmail against Tibetan exiles

January 2024

  • Composite image of Sima Sabet and Fardad Farahzad.

    Rights and freedom
    Sanctions will not stop Iran killing and kidnapping on UK soil, officials warned

    Journalist targeted in UK says tougher action needed, after UK and US sanction members of cartel and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps over murder plot

December 2023

  • About 200 protesters demonstrate with flags against the Iranian government in Manchester in September 2022. They chanted the name of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman who died in Iranian police custody after being arrested for not covering her hair.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘We live with a gun to our heads’: how Iran is targeting protesters in Britain

    As David Cameron says the Iranian regime threatens people on UK soil, Iranians talk about the threats, harassment and intimidation they experience for organising British protests

October 2023

  • A protester holds a placard with a screaming face on the traditional Belarusian flag, symbol of the opposition, as Belarusians living in Poland and Poles demand freedom for Belarus opposition activist Raman Pratasevich in 2021

    Rights and freedom
    A fake Ryanair hijack – and the fear that has stalked Belarus’s people ever since

  • Demonstrators holds flags and placards during a rally of HongKongers against the Chinese Communist party in Chinatown, London, in 2021.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘We don’t feel safe here’: Hongkongers in UK fear long reach of Chinese government

  • A man with grey hair, wearing a prison uniform and face mask, sits in a court room

    Rights and freedom
    Cop28 in Dubai: detention risk warning at UN climate summit

  • Screenshot of the BBC's Persian language website

    Rights and freedom
    Iran accused of threatening ‘terrified’ BBC staff in London

March 2022

  • Man stands by fjord with snow everywhere

    Rights and freedom
    ‘We’ll kill you’: Uyghur exile who fled to Arctic Circle still fears reach of Chinese state

    For asylum seekers, Norway is a sanctuary but even in remote towns, Muslim refugees say they face surveillance and threats

October 2021

  • Illustration of giant hand picking tiny man off page of 'red notices'

    Rights and freedom
    Has Interpol become the long arm of oppressive regimes?

    Once used in the hunt for fugitive criminals, the global police agency’s most-wanted ‘red notice’ list now includes political refugees and dissidents
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