WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Sen. Adam Schiff issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and John Curtis (R-Utah) are introducing legislation (https://www.schiff.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/MDM26A85_5.14.26.pdf) designed to curb transnational repression (TNR), threats and violence by nations against individuals outside their borders, by creating the first federal definition for the crimes and instituting enhanced criminal penalties.
The bill's introduction comes in the wake of China's new Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion law, which Chinese leaders claim is the legal basis for targeting individuals outside of its borders who contravene its new law on ethnic unity - just one example of a nation targeting...