An international team of investigative journalists has looked into how China silences its critics living abroad. Direkt36 traced the head of an organization based in Hungary, who has also been in contact with high-ranking Hungarian government politicians. A tense situation unfolded at the United Nations Conference on Human Rights in February 2023. In the elegant Wilson Palace conference room in Geneva, UN representatives reviewed a report on China, which also addressed the oppression of the Uyghur and Tibetan minorities.