How the Chinese government monitors its citizens in Ireland

Nuria Zyden, Irish citizen and Uyghur living in Ireland since 2009, who says she is under surveillance from China. Photograph: Alan Betson When Naria Zyden travelled from her home in Dublin to a conference in Sarajevo she became aware that two Chinese men were following her. They were on her plane and they travelled to the hotel where she was staying. The conference was the World Uyghur Congress and she was there to represent the Irish Uyghur Cultural Association which she had founded in 2024 as a way to bring Irish Uyghurs together. She was not entirely surprised. Zyden is…