Human Rights Colloquium: China’s Transnational Repression and its Impact on the Global Order

This FAU CHREN Human Rights Colloquium will be held on 19 November 2025 from 6 to 7:30 pm and will feature Dr. Teng Biao as speaker and Prof. Dr. Eva Pils as chair.

Description

Beijing’s campaign of transnational repression involves disinformation, surveillance, harassment, assaults, and kidnapping, aiming to silence dissent, intimidate critics, and suppress free expression in other countries. It has been an increasing threat to international human rights, freedom and the quality of democracy. Against the background of rising authoritarianism and digital technologies, China's extraterritorial coercion will profoundly challenge the global order.

Speaker Bio

Teng Biao is a human rights lawyer and a Visiting Fellow at the Chair for Human Rights Law, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). He holds a PhD in law from Peking University and has previously served as Lecturer at the China University of Politics and Law in Beijing, Pozen Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, Hauser Human Rights Scholar at Hunter College (City University of New York), and as a visiting fellow at the New York University, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. Dr Teng co-founded two human rights NGOs in Beijing – the Open Constitution Initiative in 2003 and China Against the Death Penalty in 2010. His current research covers China’s human rights, social movements, law and politics, and transnational repression. His Visiting Fellowship at FAU is made possible by support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

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