China tops list of countries trying to silence exiled dissidents over past decade, study shows Russia, Turkey and Egypt also among worst perpetrators of transnational repression around the globe.
A quarter of the world’s countries have engaged in transnational repression – targeting political exiles abroad to silence dissent – in the past decade, new research reveals.
Since 2014, at least 26 governments have orchestrated 124 incidents of transnational repression against exiled journalists, highlighting the growing threat to press freedom on a global scale.
Freedom House documents cases using publicly available information that can be externally confirmed, such as media reports, NGO reports, reports by the UN and other information based on private reporting and civil society activism.
However, a smaller number of countries account for the vast majority of all documented physical attacks on dissidents, with China the most frequent offender, responsible for 272 incidents, or 22% of recorded cases.
