Seeking Help?
If you are in the US, including any US territory, report it to the FBI using the following contact details:
Contact the FBI online at tips.fbi.gov.
Call 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324).
Find your local FBI field office
The FBI defines a threat as the following: “If someone communicates any statement or indication of an intention to inflict pain, injury, damage, or other hostile action in an illegal manner, to include in a manner that manipulates the U.S. legal system, that’s a threat. Find more information at FBI’s ‘Threat Intimidation Guide.’
HfHR and Transnational Repression
Press release: Hindus for Human Rights Responds to Allegations of Indian Government Involvement in Assassination of Canadian Sikh Leader
Joint letter: Joint Letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on transnational repression
Joint report: “Virtually Vulnerable: Exposing the Human Cost of Digital Harassment”
Press release: BJP Bans Our Twitter Account in India
Just Security: “Beyond Alleged Assassination Plots: India’s Modi is Silencing US Critics Digitally Too”
House Foreign Affairs Committee Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission: “Joint Statement Submitted for the Record”
Important Resources/Further Reading
FBI Explainer: Transnational Repression
Sikh Coalition: “Sikh Coalition Publishes New Report on Transnational Repression”
Human Rights Watch report: ‘We Will Find You’: A Global Look At How Governments Repress Nationals Abroad
Washington Post: “Covert Indian Operation Seeks to Discredit Modi’s Critics in the U.S.”
ThePrint: “Not Soros Agent, I am a Practising Hindu Woman Against Hindu Nationalism: Sunita Vishwanath”
United States Commission on International Religious Freedom: “USCIRF is Deeply Concerned by India’s Transnational Repression Against Religious Minorities”
Freedom House: “Transnational Repression in 2023: Insecure Leaders Threaten Dissent Abroad”
Freedom House: “No Way In Or Out: Authoritarian Controls on the Freedom of Movement”
US State Department: “2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practies: India”
House Foreign Affairs Committee Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission: “Rep. Ilhan Omar Statement Submitted for the Record”