"Ukrainian groups and Russian dissidents based in Ireland are being targeted by Moscow’s intelligence services, using agents posing as sympathisers with Kyiv."
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...

"a 'major objective' for Beijing was dissuading Tibetans and Uyghurs in Switzerland from engaging in political activities" (...)

"Their agents operate under diplomatic cover, or pass themselves off as journalists, tourists or students," it said"

www.barrons.com/articles/chi...

"According to the study, 10 nations accounted for 80% of physical assaults on dissidents over the past decade, with China, Turkey and Russia topping the list".
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/fe...

A surveillance agent working for an investigation firm in Belgium was assigned to monitor a Kazakh lawyer and activist. More than 181,000 photos of her were found. A flat opposite to her residence had been rented for the operation.

www.lalibre.be/belgique/jud...

"The assassination of Lim Kimya and the alleged deportations are only the latest in the long line of violent or legally questionable incidents concerning migrants in Thailand."

www.dw.com/en/thailand-...

"the Natto Team’s preliminary research discovered that Sichuan Juxinhe is likely a front company of China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS)."

nattothoughts.substack.com/p/salt-typho...

"The man is suspected of spying on Moroccan opposition supporters in Germany on behalf of the Moroccan secret service."

www.dw.com/en/suspected...

"A prominent Tanzanian activist has been released after being "kidnapped" on Sunday by three armed men on the streets of Kenya's capital [...]
Her brief detention comes as the governments of both Tanzania and Kenya stand accused of abducting critics."
www.reuters.com/world/africa...

A Cambodian dissident has been killed in Thailand by a man who is allegedly a former Cambodian soldier.

www.leparisien.fr/internationa...

"The survey found that 14 per cent of people in Canada who identify as having Chinese, Hong Kong, Taiwanese, Tibetan or Uyghur heritage – one in seven – have experienced threats from a foreign government or know someone who has."

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)'s members « are helping one another intimidate, arrest and extradite government critics in support of their allies’ domestic agendas ».

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

"Europe as a whole would see an escalation of the hybrid war that Russia is already waging against it, still largely unnoticed by most blithely Christmas-shopping West Europeans."

www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/the-...

Looks like Russia's ongoing disinformation campaign has changed up tactics, and is now finding students talking online and deepfaking their voices so they can use them to put out their usual anti-Western messages. The below is taken from this original www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9L5...

Venezuelan governement using criminal groups in Chile and Colombia to threatened, kidnap and kill dissidents.

www.eltiempo.com/mundo/venezu...

Turkish TNR: "seven Turkish nationals had been abducted at gunpoint, hooded and handcuffed by masked agents traveling in unmarked vehicles [...] four were taken to a remote airstrip [...] and forced aboard a plane waiting to take them to a Turkish prison".

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

"There have been at least 14 suspected assassinations on UK soil, carried out by actors for the state or criminal networks. The series of murders of Kremlin critics and fugitives living abroad was recently confirmed by the release of a newly declassified US intelligence".
inews.co.uk/news/putin-r...

📖NEW PUBLICATION📖 Excited to share our latest article with @colingerard.bsky.social in the online papers of GWU's Russia Program! We explore how Russia's ecosystem of information influence has been reorganized since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Our key finding: this actor mapping.🧶1/9