Munich, May 4 -- In its latest Weekly Brief, the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has once again spotlighted the Chinese government's intensifying campaign of transnational repression targeting Uyghur activists and human rights defenders worldwide.

According to WUC, the revelations, which come from investigations by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and other global media outlets, expose Beijing's use of fake NGOs, known as GONGOs to manipulate the UN human rights system and silence dissenting voices.

According to the WUC's Weekly Brief, the Chinese state-linked GONGOs pose as civil society organizations, but in reality, they function as tools to shield China from criticism over its human rights abuses in East ...