Delegation for relations with Iran Ordinary meeting Joint with other Delegations on transnational repression (D-RU, D-CN, D-BY)
5 November 2026
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DELEGATIONS European Parliament
00:08 - 00:39
Speaker 2
Okay, good morning. So, welcome to this joint meeting of the delegations for relations with Belarus, with People's Republic of China, with Iran, and delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. And this joint delegations meeting handles transnational repression. Let's go forward with the agenda. So, if there are no objections, the draft agenda is first to be adopted, and it's adopted.
00:39 - 01:08
Speaker 1
On the chair's announcements, interpretation is available in the following languages, that is German, English, French, Polish, Belarusian, and Farsi. The meeting will be web streamed. And we will start with the introduction of the subject by Mrs. Hannah Neumann, the author-rapporteur on countering transnational repression, and the set chair of the delegation for relations to Iran, who will now give the introduction to the topic and has 5 minutes. Hannah is remotely, so the floor is yours, Hannah.
01:08 - 01:40
Speaker 3
Good morning, Ville. Good morning, everyone, and first of all apologies that I can't be with you in person, which was my plan, but we are up in the north of Germany at the moment in coalition talks and it's the last two days. So, it's a bit tricky. I have to be there, but I'm very glad I can at least address you here digitally and I will follow surely the meeting for the next two hours. This is an important meeting for me, but I also know that it's an important meeting for many of the exile and diaspora communities in the European Union.
01:40 - 02:35
Speaker 4
So, allow me to maybe for everyone else who isn't so much aware of the issue of transnational repression to shortly introduce the topic and the term to you. TNR, or transnational repression, is a tongue twister. I had to practice it for quite a while, and it's quite a technical term for something very bad happening in the European Union, but also across the world. We know that there are a high number of repressive regimes such as China, Russia, Iran, Belarus around the world that repress people in their own countries, but they do by far not stop with the repression in their own countries, but they extend all these repressive measures also abroad. They follow people that leave, for example, Russia, China, or Iran into the European Union and try to repress and silence them here, and not only them, but also many people that support them.
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