Beijing is increasingly reaching across mainland China’s borders to apprehend and repatriate political opponents and activists in a way that undermines international law, say lawyers and rights groups. As WSJ's Ned Levin reports:

In several cases, China has bypassed procedural hurdles to transferring individuals of interest to its soil and, some of these people fear, carried out operations outside Beijing’s jurisdiction in Hong Kong and Thailand. “What is emerging is the new Chinese way to return its own nationals to face justice on the mainland,” said Simon Young, a law professor at the University of Hong Kong. “This...