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Dec

Chinese Transnational Repression and Human Rights Advocacy in the Greater China Region

8 December 2025 16:00 to 18:00 | Lecture/talk
photo of Lee Ming-che and Tashken Davlet

China’s expanding authoritarian reach is reshaping the lives of activists, exiles, and overseas communities and testing the resilience of democracies.

In this talk, Taiwanese human rights activist Lee Ming-che who was imprisoned in China from 2017 to 2022 for “subverting state power”, shares his firsthand experience of transnational repression and reflects on how Taiwan and its partners can respond. 

He is joined by Tashken Davlet, an Uyghur Taiwanese human rights advocate with experience working across Uyghur, Tibetan, Hong Kong, Chinese and Taiwanese movements. Tashken works now with Doublethink Lab researching Chinese influence operations and digital authoritarianism. 

Together, the two speakers will discuss how authoritarian control, disinformation, and diaspora intimidation threaten human rights and democratic systems, and what kind of international solidarity, policy responses, and civil society cooperation are needed to defend democracy.

About the event

Location:

Asia Library, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Sölvegatan 18 B, Lund

Contact:

stefan [dot] brehm [at] ace [dot] lu [dot] se