The U.S. government is targeting transnational repression—a tool authoritarian regimes use to silence dissent overseas— with a “multi-faceted strategy,” a hearing has been told.
The strategy, outlined at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) hearing on “Transnational Repression of Freedom of Religion or Belief” on May 10, seeks to counter foreign attempts to restrict fundamental freedoms on U.S. soil.
Perpetrators include communist China, Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, which “also happen to be among the worst violators of the freedom of religion or belief,” according to Scott Busby, Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the U.S. Department of State….