No Way Out: China’s Insidious Use of ‘Exit Bans’ to Bully Ethnic Minorities, Critics, Foreign Governments

Xi Jinping's China has begun to increasingly use exit bans (not allowing people to leave the country) against human rights defenders (HRD), journalists, and other individuals that threaten or have upset the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to a new report. China can use exit bans against any individual without any just cause or transparency, it says. These decisions can be taken by local bodies and can also not be appealed. Exit bans are the latest tool being used by China and the CCP to bring its increasingly freedom-oriented population back under its control and exert its autocratic might, the…