Benjamin L. Cardin: “Of course, they deny this. They have said, 'the accusation of transnational repression is totally made out of thin air.'”

Nowhere has this been more on display than what has occurred in Hong Kong in recent years as the passage of the National Security Law and entry into force of Article 23 destroyed what remains of Hong Kong's democracy.

Freedom House is pleased to support the Human Rights Defenders Protection Act, led by Chairman Cardin.

The use of defamation laws, foreign agent registration laws, and anti-NGO laws to silence free speech is nothing new.

I introduced the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act as a way of saying that we will hold abusers accountable even if their own country does not.