CITIZEN LAB RESEARCH REPORT NO.151 13 Chechen Republic, the Russian government uses digital platforms to collect information on its critics and then arrests or tortures family members who remain in the country to silence dissent abroad.83 One member of the Rwandan diaspora described their concern for their loved ones back home as “psychological torture.”84 Syrians Abroad and Their Relatives Back Home,” Amnesty International <https://www.amnesty.org/ en/documents/MDE24/057/2011/en/>. See also Emma Lundgren Jorum (2015), “Repression Across Borders: Homeland Response to Anti-Regime Mobilization Among Syrians in Sweden,” Diaspora Studies 8(2) <https://doi.org/10.1080/09739572.2015.1029711>. 83 Schenkkan and Linzer, Freedom House report at 29. 84 Ibid at 25.