ms spock said:

roughbarked said:

This artcle is of interest on transnational repression.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-28/calls-for-australian-inquiry-into-transnational-repression/106588928

Uyghur activists, Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigners, Tibetan community leaders and Cambodian dissidents living in Australia have all reported similar experiences of systematic harassment.
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They get away but they can’t leave the repression home. In China, Chinese family members will block their overseas family so the police stop visiting, detaining, and questioning them. Very sad.

Transnational repression can take the form of physical harassment, threats or violence, but it has increasingly become coordinated campaigns of online abuse where hundreds of fake accounts, funded or directed by a foreign government, target a single person.
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I think that this was behind the incredible force of the “No” Vote. I couldn’t believe how many troll farms were involved and I stopped counting at one point. It was so depressing.

Wasn’t there something about China having fake police or officials in Australia hassling Chinese Australians.