Long Read | Immigration Policy: The Backdoor to Transnational Repression
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For exile Chinese, Uyghurs and Hong Kong, state surveillance does not end at China's borders. Beijing's influence extends far to Europe with transnational repression, extortion of relatives and digital incitement campaigns. Inconspicuous mailboxes in a suburb of London: the postman throws envelopes. Addressed to the neighbors of a young woman. In the envelope are pornographic... Source
Immigration Policy: The Backdoor to Transnational Repression
Citizen Lab researchers Siena Anstis, Marcus Michaelsen, and Kate Pundyk write for the Foreign Policy Centre that the increasingly restrictive migration policies of democratic countries are incompatible with their claims of countering transnational repression. The authors argue that “host states cannot claim to counter repression across borders while ignoring the role their immigration policies play in enabling it.” Read The post Immigration Po…
Long Read | Immigration Policy: The Backdoor to Transnational Repression
Did the United States (US) help Iran track down its own dissidents? On 7 July, the Iranian American Legal Defense Fund (IALDF) filed a lawsuit alleging exactly that. The Complaint alleges US immigration authorities shared confidential information about Iranian asylum seekers with the Iranian government to facilitate their removal from the United States. If substantiated, the allegations reveal more than an extraordinary instance of cooperation b…
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