Foreign agent

A foreign agent is anyone who actively carries out the interests of a foreign country within another country.

For other uses, see Foreign agent (disambiguation).

An unregistered foreign agent may in some countries be presumed to be engaging in espionage. Some countries have formal procedures to legalize the activities of foreign agents acting overtly. An example is the 1938 United States law, the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), the governing statute of which contains a wide-ranging and detailed definition of "foreign agent."[1]

Laws covering foreign agents vary widely from country to country, and selective enforcement may prevail within countries, based on perceived national interest. Under the 2012 Russian foreign agent law, nongovernmental organizations have to designate themselves "foreign agents" in all external communication if they engage in "political activity" and receive any foreign funding.[2]

See also

References
  1. U.S. Code Title 22 Chapter 11 Subchapter II ยง 611: Definitions
  2. Russia: Government against Rights Groups Human Rights Watch 2015
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.