Freedom House Recommendations for the German government: • Raise awareness of transnational repression within the government. Develop trainings for all officials who engage with vulnerable populations or may encounter incidents of transnational repression in their work, including members of law enforcement, migration officials, and foreign affairs officials, including diplomatic staff. • Update national security priorities to recognize that threats to an individual’s human rights by a foreign state are also a threat to German’s institutions and agencies. • Implement a review of existing laws and policies to develop and improve mechanisms for ensuring the accountability of foreign states perpetrating transnational repression. • Identify and document transnational repression as a distinct problem, including in the BfV��s annual report on the protection of the constitution and Federal Foreign Office’s human rights reports. • Ensure that protections and responses to transnational repression treat targeted individuals as potential victims, rather than as security threats. Responses to transnational repression should be separate from policies that address radicalization, terrorism, or recruitment by foreign intelligence services. • Reduce reliance on temporary forms of protection for asylum seekers and return to a norm of granting full refugee status. • Screen for vulnerability to transnational repression early in the immigration and asylum process. Provide high-risk individuals with additional protection throughout the process, such as accommodation outside of a refugee reception center and digital security support. freedomhouse.org 9