Changes from plenary report to adopted text

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ChangedB. whereas there is no universally adopted definition of transnational repression and official data is limited, which is an obstacle to the fight against this phenomenon; whereas according to Freedom House, in the period 2014-2024 over 25 % of the world’s governments had engaged in transnational repression, with 1 219 direct physical incidents across 103 target countries; whereas 10 regimes account for nearly 80 % of all transnational repression cases, namely China, Türkiye, Tajikistan, Russia, Egypt, Cambodia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iran and Belarus; whereas countries in other regions, such as Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela in Latin America, Saudi Arabia in the Gulf and Eritrea in Africa are also registered as perpetrators of transnational repression;

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Added5. Highlights and condemns the fact that former European Parliament vice-president, Alejo Vidal Quadras, was a victim of TNR perpetrated by Iran through a terrorist attack orchestrated in an EU Member State;

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Removed18. Urges the Commission and the EEAS to coordinate EU-wide shelter and protection programmes for HRDs, facilitating referrals and promoting harmonised protection standards across Member States, involving existing consortia and civil society networks;

Added19. Calls for the EU and its Member States to respect their international obligations and stresses that the right to seek asylum is fundamental for the protection of people at risk of persecution under the Geneva Convention;

Removed19. Calls on the Member States to implement EU legislation in a way that protects HRDs seeking shelter and asylum from authoritarian regimes, ensuring that HRDs in need receive effective protection, including by swiftly issuing humanitarian visas in urgent cases to individuals targeted by transnational repression, and to exercise particular caution with regard to rejecting resettlement requests by HRDs and deporting them to non-EU countries, where this may result in their being subjected to transnational repression;

Added20. Calls on the Member States to make best use of their national policies and available margins to formulate a more coherent, coordinated and predictable policy for individuals targeted by transnational repression;

Removed20. Calls for the EU and its Member States to respect their international obligations on persecuted HRDs’ right to seek asylum and stresses that the right to seek asylum is fundamental for the protection of people at risk of persecution for human rights activities under the Geneva Convention; calls on the Member States to protect individuals who have contacted the authorities to report credible cases of transnational repression, including by advising them to seek other forms of subsidiary protection if they have not already done so; commends the Member States that host HRDs, ensuring their safety and enabling them to continue their activities;

Removed21. Calls on the Member States to make best use of their national policies and available margins to formulate a more coherent, coordinated and predictable visa policy for HRDs and other individuals targeted by transnational repression, in line with the HRD provisions in the revised EU Visa Policy Handbook;

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Removed30. Calls on the Commission to enforce the Digital Services Act and ensure that social media platforms comply with human rights obligations and address transnational repression; stresses the need for technology companies to identify and address potential human rights risks associated with their products, in line with applicable due diligence legislation and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; urges the enforcement of mandatory human rights due diligence obligations for companies offering hosting, communication, surveillance and content distribution services, including requirements to identify, mitigate and prevent the misuse of their platforms or infrastructure to target HRDs;