Overseas Blacklist: Recording the CCP's Transnational Repression, Breaking the Silence of Overseas Chinese

Overseas Mafia.com For a long time, the Chinese authorities have extended their rule of fear within China overseas through transnational repression. In March of this year, Italy expelled eight Chinese citizens suspected of participating in transnational repression against Teacher Li on grounds of national security. This is an important action taken by a European country in response to the issue of the CCP's transnational repression. It also demonstrates that democratic societies have begun to recognize that the CCP's transnational repression is not merely a private dilemma for overseas Chinese, but a direct challenge to the sovereignty, rule of law, and public security of democratic nations.

In the United States, the Department of Justice and the FBI have also taken action. The US has previously prosecuted individuals suspected of operating a secret overseas CCP police station in Manhattan, New York, and charged multiple personnel of China's Ministry of Public Security with using fake accounts, cyber harassment, and intimidation to suppress Chinese people and democratic activists in the US. The US government has regarded the CCP's transnational repression as a threat to US sovereignty and the safety of its residents.

Similarly, countries such as Germany, Sweden, and the UK have also begun actively investigating and prosecuting individuals carrying out such activities against overseas diaspora.

These actions prove one thing: as long as we retain the evidence, tell the stories, and turn scattered fear into systematic records, transnational repression will no longer be an unacountable black box.

This is not just an individual case targeting a few dissidents. Nowadays, an increasing number of ordinary overseas Chinese are also beginning to experience surveillance, threats, harassment, targeted reporting, social platform bans, frozen bank accounts, family members being summoned by local police stations, being asked to "return to China to cooperate with investigations," being photographed and tracked while attending rallies, and even being forced to self-censor within democratic countries.

Based on our own long-term experiences of suffering from transnational repression, and based on the fear that many overseas Chinese are enduring yet find difficult to articulate, we have decided to no longer remain silent.

Today, in cooperation with Safeguard Defenders (@SafeguardDefend), we are officially launching the transnational repression special project:

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This is an anonymous case collection project aimed at overseas Chinese, international students, immigrants, dissidents, activists, journalists, and their families. We hope to systematically record the methods by which the CCP implements transnational repression overseas, including but not limited to:

Police stations, State Security, or neighborhood committees contacting family members back in China to pressure them into stopping overseas relatives from speaking out;

Overseas personnel being photographed, tracked, threatened, or asked to attend "chats";

Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and other accounts being targeted for reporting, bans, or human flesh searching (doxxing);

Bank accounts, payment accounts, domestic assets, or the daily lives of relatives being threatened;

CSSAs, overseas Chinese associations, clan associations, or other organizations participating in counter-protests, tailing, filming, and applying pressure;

Being requested or coerced into cooperating with pro-CCP activities, providing information about overseas classmates, friends, or community members to domestic Chinese departments, or assisting in monitoring, reporting, and obstructing others from speaking out;

Chinese embassies and consulates, overseas police stations, or related personnel intervening in harassment, intimidation, and information collection;

Self or family members suffering retaliation within mainland China due to participating in protests, forwarding information, accepting interviews, or publishing comments;

Being asked to delete content, stop speaking out, return to China to "clarify the situation," or being hinted that "there will be consequences for not obeying."

We collect these cases not to create fear, but to end fear.

All submitted content can be anonymous. We will make every effort to protect the safety of submitters and, under the premise of de-identification and privacy protection, organize, research, and conduct international advocacy on the cases. The relevant materials will be used to expose the true scale and specific methods of the CCP's transnational repression to the media, human rights organizations, parliaments, government agencies, and the international community.

Every record is a piece of evidence.

Every recounting is a breakthrough of silence.

Every case may become the foundation for protecting others.

共产党 (The CCP) hopes that overseas Chinese will continue to be afraid, remain silent, and continue to feel that "speaking out is useless" in democratic countries.

But we want to say: Starting today, we no longer keep the fear to ourselves.

If you or someone around you has ever experienced similar encounters, please fill out the anonymous questionnaire.

Let us together record the black hands of the CCP reaching overseas, expose transnational repression, and defend the freedom, safety, and dignity of democratic societies.

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