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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Mark Townsend

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

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.
China has accounted for a quarter of all documented incidents of transnational repression since 2014. Photograph: Dia Images/Getty Images

Scores of attacks, including assassinations, abductions and assaults, were perpetrated by 25 governments last year against people outside their borders, new analysis reveals.

Data from the Washington DC-based pro-democracy organisation Freedom House reveals that the governments of Russia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Turkmenistan and China were the biggest five perpetrators of transnational repression in 2023.

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