When a government cannot silence its critics at home, it follows them abroad. That is the defining logic of transnational repression, the use of state power to intimidate, surveil, harass or eliminate dissidents living beyond a country’s borders. For years, this was a problem associated with autocracies, however, India, the world’s self-proclaimed largest democracy, was rarely placed in this company. That is changing, and the evidence is no longer deniable.