authoritarian regimes
This week, the European Parliament adopted my report on transnational repression with a broad majority. This is an important success in the effort to stop authoritarian regimes from intimidating their critics in Europe. Now, the European Commission and the Member States have to act.
More and more authoritarian regimes are targeting their critics across borders to silence them – also in Europe. Yet, we are still lacking effective political counterstrategieswhich we want to change in the European Parliament.
Digital technologies know no borders, and authoritarian regimes are using them to persecute women activists in exile. At an event with Citizen Lab, I presented an alarming new study and made it clear that the EU must take action. With protection, visibility and political consistency.