Cardin: News of foiled New York assassination plot ‘disturbing’

Senate Foreign Relations Chair Cardin: Foiled Assassination Plot in New York ‘Disturbing’

The Democratic congressman announced a hearing that will ‘examine the scope of global transnational repression’ and steps the U.S. can take to combat it

Cardin: News of foiled New York assassination plot ‘disturbing’

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ben Cardin (D-Md.) on Wednesday said the news of an alleged plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader in New York City is “disturbing” and underscores a global rise in transnational repression. “We are witnessing an alarming rise in transnational repression globally, where governments are dispatching assassins and kidnappers or using…