1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Stop Transnational Repression Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Transnational repression is not currently codified or defined in United States law. (2) The Federal Bureau of Investigation defines transnational repression as foreign government breach of national borders through physical and digital means to intimidate, silence, coerce, harass, or harm members of diaspora and exile communities in violation of United States law. Transnational repression is often used to silence individuals who are perceived to oppose or are critical of a government, including journalists, writers and artists, human rights defenders, religious or ethnic minority groups, and political opponents. Methods of transnational repression may include physical and digital stalking, harassment, computer hacking, phone tapping, INTERPOL abuse, criminal threats, assaults, attempted kidnappings, coerced repatriation, and detaining family members in the home country. (3) Transnational repression is not limited to physical acts of intimidation and harassment. According to Citizen Lab, digital transnational repression tools are used to facilitate government reach beyond borders to gain access to social media and email accounts, including through phishing attacks, zero-click spyware hacks, social media page takedowns, SIM card hacks, and fake invitations to conferences. For human rights activists and dissidents, this has a serious impact on their advocacy work and sense of security, even if they have relocated to escape physical intimidation. (4) On February 23, 2022, the National Security Division of the Department of Justice launched a Strategy for Countering Nation-State Threats in order to support a comprehensive, whole-of-government approach to addressing threats the United States faces from hostile nations, including transnational repression. (5) Throughout 2022, the Department of Justice charged a number of individuals with stalking, harassing, and illicitly acting as agents of