On the CCP's latest alleged surveillance operation targeting the family of Taiwan's president in the U.S., see the following⬇️ Learn more about PRC's #TransnationalRepression#, read @CECCgov 's report:

🇪🇪 has the honor to co-sponsor a side-event “Beyond Borders, not Beyond Reach: Addressing Transnational Repression and Reprisals for Cooperation with the UN”. ⏱️Tuesday, 20 October, 1:15pm-2:30pm 📍UNHQ, Conference Room 7 or via UN Web TV Please join us!

Taiwan prosecutors said two Hong Kong residents paid for the surveillance of a lawmaker and his family, indicting four Taiwanese individuals in a case authorities described as transnational repression

Great to catch up with my old friend @jamiemfly, CEO of @freedomhouse, on how to protect our shared values. #China’s# new Ethnic Unity Law is a global concern, for it legalizes transnational repression. #TNR#

HRIC Executive Director @ZhouFengSuo has given an in-depth interview to Investigative Journalism Reportika, speaking on Tiananmen, AI-powered surveillance, transnational repression, and China's democratic future. As a student leader in 1989 who was imprisoned after the June Fourth crackdown, Zhou explains why historical memory remains one of the Party's deepest anxieties. The movement showed that millions of Chinese citizens openly demanded democracy and constitutional government, shattering the myth that the Chinese people neither want nor are ready for it. Memory is dangerous to dictators because it reminds people that change is possible. He also warns that the convergence of dictatorship and artificial intelligence may be the defining question of this century. AI is already reinforcing censorship, surveillance and social control inside China, and those capabilities are being exported. Whether AI empowers individuals or concentrates power in the hands of regimes will depend on the safeguards democracies build now. On transnational repression, Zhou notes that Chinese dissidents have long been the first targets, and that protecting them is inseparable from defending the sovereignty of democratic societies themselves. Read the full interview:

Foreign cash paid for a camera aimed at the door of Puma Shen, a DPP legislator and Taipei mayoral candidate known for warning about Chinese influence. Prosecutors just indicted four Taipei private investigators hired by two Hong Kong residents to watch him and his family. The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office charged the four under the Personal Data Protection Act. On September 5, 2024, the Hong Kong clients wired HK$99,950, about US$12,700, to investigator Cheng Yung-chin. After bodyguards blocked physical tailing, subcontractors hid a pinhole camera under a scooter seat outside Shen’s Da’an home. It streamed the entrance to Telegram from October 1 to November 8, 2024. Arrest warrants are out for both Hong Kong men, who have left Taiwan. Prosecutors called the money funding from an overseas hostile force for transnational repression. They have not publicly traced it to Beijing. The surveillance ran in 2024. The indictment landed as Shen campaigns for Taipei mayor. Foreign clients bought local agencies to film an elected official’s family at home, and so far face only privacy charges, not a national-security case.