# Transnational Repression **Domain:** Counterintelligence / Human Rights / Political Repression **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition The FBI defines **transnational repression** as foreign governments reaching beyond their borders to intimidate, silence, coerce, harass or harm members of diaspora and exile communities in the United States. ## Tactics The FBI lists stalking, disinformation, harassment, threats, coercive repatriation, pressure against family or friends, abusive legal practices, cyberhacking, assault, attempted kidnapping and attempted murder among possible forms. ## Evidence Boundary The category requires a foreign-government nexus. Harassment, hacking or coercion alone does not establish transnational repression without evidence connecting the conduct to a foreign state or its agents. ## Sources / Provenance - [FBI — Transnational Repression](https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/counterintelligence/transnational-repression) - [Congressional Research Service — Transnational Repression and U.S. Policy](https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R49036) ## See Also [[wiki/Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], [[wiki/Commercial Spyware|Commercial Spyware]], [[wiki/Terrorism|Terrorism]]