China’s communist regime has been increasing its use of exit bans against its targets—including dissidents, officials, and foreign executives—as part of its efforts to tighten controls over the country, according to the latest report by Spain-based rights group Safeguard Defenders.
While it’s impossible to know how many individuals were targeted by the exit ban at one time due to the lack of official data, the group found “strong evidence” showing “the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] has massively increased the number of people placed under exit bans over the past decade.”
One indicator is the surge of the phrase “exit ban” mentioned in cases on the Supreme People’s Court’s official database, which rose eightfold between 2016 to 2020….