{"id":76826,"date":"2026-03-25T22:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/25\/china-hong-kong-dissidents-transnational-repression-report"},"modified":"2026-03-25T22:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:44:21","slug":"they-can-reach-me-wherever-china-using-financial-tactics-to-coerce-people-who-flee-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76826","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They can reach me wherever\u2019: China using financial tactics to coerce people who flee, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK urged to tackle transnational repression, as dissidents say Beijing has targeted them with tax bills and other threats<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t feel safe, even though I\u2019m not based in Hong Kong any more,\u201d said Christopher Mung Siu-tat after getting tax bills from Hong Kong authorities. \u201cThe regime can reach me by their long arms wherever I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Siu-tat, the executive director at the Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor, a UK-based NGO, fled Beijing\u2019s sweeping national security laws years ago. The letters are the latest example of a series of transnational repression (TNR) tactics the 54-year-old has faced in recent years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/25\/china-hong-kong-dissidents-transnational-repression-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK urged to tackle transnational repression, as dissidents say Beijing has targeted them with tax bills and other threats\u201cI didn\u2019t feel safe, even though I\u2019m not based in Hong Kong any more,\u201d said Christopher Mung Siu-tat after getting tax bills from H&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3007,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,53,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76827,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76826\/revisions\/76827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}