Authoritarian governments like China and Iran are turning to private investigators to track and surveil dissidents living in the U.S. to avoid sending their own agents.
Authoritarian governmentsand Iran are increasingly hiring private investigators to surveil and track dissidents living legally in the U.S., according to a Monday report from the New York Times.
FBI agents were also surveilling her as part of an investigation into an Iranian plot to kidnap the woman, according to the Times.Iranian Minister of Intelligence Seyyed Mahmoud Alavi attends President of Iran Hassan Rouhani's press conference in Tehran, Iran. China has also turned to less subtle methods of cracking down on citizens overseas. The country has opened dozens of"The stations ostensibly target citizens suspected of committing fraud and other crimes while outside of China, but the police forces have"persuaded" roughly 230,000 citizens to return to China, according to Safeguard Defenders, a human rights watchdog that released a report on the issue last month.
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