More cases of China, Asian neighbours repressing critics across borders, Human Rights Watch says

There has been an alarming trend of Asian governments committing acts of transnational repression to silence their critics living on foreign soil, according to international non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch.

While this is a longstanding issue, increased communications, travel and new technologies have enabled governments to carry out human rights abuses against their nationals living abroad, said the human rights watchdog in its 2024 world report. This repression has targeted minority communities and government critics, taking the form of arbitrary deportations, abductions and killings.