Canada’s Hogue report – missed opportunity to tackle transnational repression

Canada’s Hogue report – missed opportunity to tackle transnational repression

Emile Dirks, Noura Aljizawi, Siena Anstis and Ron Deibert wrote in the The Globe and Mail of 10 February 2025 about the problem of transnational repression. The final report of the public inquiry into foreign interference (the Hogue Commission) offers a measure of reassurance to Canadians; there is no evidence that Canadian MPs worked with foreign states to undermine the 2019 or 2021 federal elections. Justice Marie-Josée Hogue’s findings, howev…

Silenced by Surveillance: The Impacts of Digital Transnational Repression on Journalists, Human Rights Defenders, and Dissidents in Exile

Introduction In January 2021, Carine Kanimba, a Rwandan activist living in the United States and Belgium, discovered that her mobile phone had been infected with Pegasus spyware, a powerful commercial surveillance tool that provides its operator with complete access to the targeted device. 1 1. The authors would like to thank Claire Posno and Jillian Sprenger who provided valuable research and editing assistance in the preparation of this paper.2